{"id":556,"date":"2024-03-22T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/latest-update-announced-for-gnome-shell-extension-manager-app\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:03:53","slug":"latest-update-announced-for-gnome-shell-extension-manager-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/latest-update-announced-for-gnome-shell-extension-manager-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Update Announced for GNOME Shell Extension Manager App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>A big update to <em>Extension Manager<\/em>, a popular 3rd-party tool to browse, install, and manage GNOME Shell extensions <em>without<\/em> the need for a web browser, has been released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you\u2019re into customising Ubuntu, be it changing the look and layout, adding animated effects, patching in new features and capabilities, or modifying underlying behaviour, you\u2019ll know that GNOME Shell extensions are essential \u2014 as is this terrific, user-friendly tool.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Extension Manager<\/em> 0.5 is described as a \u201cPerformance &amp; Polish\u201d release by its developer Matt Wakeman,  and with an update to libadwaita 1.5, smarter adaptive behaviour, (much needed) search fixes, and other tweaks, it\u2019s a fair description.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/before-after.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Extension Manager 0.5: Revamped \u2018detail\u2019 pages<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The \u201cdetail\u201d page for extensions in this version is more engaging, displaying each extension\u2019s official icon next to its title. If no icon is present, a fallback \u2018puzzle piece\u2019 icon is used. The detail pages now also showcase download numbers and the version number of the extension.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can see comparitive view at this <a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/before-after-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> . The caption reads &#8211; Extension Manager 0.5: Author badges show in comments<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I also appreciate that comments, usually replies to other comments, left by extension authors are now highlighted with an \u201cauthor\u201d badge. This is consistent with how things are shown on the <a href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official GNOME Extensions website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The row of chips displaying which versions of  GNOME Shell an extension supports has been removed. This is a logical change since the app by default hides extensions unsupported on the underlying GNOME Shell.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Extension Manager 0.5.0 overview: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download stats added to detail page<\/li>\n<li>Detail pages now display extension\u2019s icon<\/li>\n<li>Version number displayed<\/li>\n<li>Comments left by extension authors now badged<\/li>\n<li>Search has been made more reliable<\/li>\n<li>Window size is remembered between sessions<\/li>\n<li>Improved adaptive resizing<\/li>\n<li>Zoom shortcuts &amp; keyboard navigable UI<\/li>\n<li>Updated translations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>Older versions of this tool are available in the Ubuntu repos in 22.04 LTS and above but to benefit from all of the changes mentioned above you need the latest version. The recommended place to get that? 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