Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 43

Metadata

TIP

There were no relevant changes to metadata.json in GNOME 43.

Extension

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There were no relevant changes to extension.js in GNOME 43.

GNOME Shell

Quick Settings

GNOME Shell 43 removed aggregateMenu and uses quick settings instead:

Type	Where
Direct access	Main.panel.statusArea.quickSettings
Columns count	ui.panel.N_QUICK_SETTINGS_COLUMNS
Panel menu button	ui.panel.QuickSettings

ui.quickSettings is a new module for:

Name	Use Case
QuickToggle	The primary entry point to create toggle button.
QuickMenuToggle	Same as QuickToggle but with menu.
QuickSlider	To create slider like brightness and volume control (that are already built-in).
QuickSettingsMenu	To add another quick settings menu instead of adding items to the existing Main.panel.statusArea.quickSettings.

Learn how to implement quick settings with examples.

Screen Sharing Indicator

GNOME Shell 43 also have a new screen sharing indicator in panel:

Type	Where
Direct access	Main.panel.statusArea.screenSharing

App display

App display have new AppGrid and BaseAppViewGridLayout class.

The grid layout allows you to manage the layout such as going to another page and toggling the page indicators visibility.

Signals

In GNOME Shell 43, instead of using Signals.addSignalMethods(), you can extend your class to Signals.EventEmitter.

To do that, you need to use misc.signals module:

const Signals = imports.misc.signals;

var MyClass = class extends Signals.EventEmitter {
    constructor() {
        super();
    }
}

Soup3

GNOME Shell 43 uses Soup 3 as default.

Soup 3 API is different from what we had in version 2.

For example, here we post id and receive the result asynchronously:

const {Soup, GLib} = imports.gi;

let session = new Soup.Session();

let params = {
    id: '1',
};

let message = Soup.Message.new_from_encoded_form(
    'POST',
    'https://example.com/',
    Soup.form_encode_hash(params)
);

session.send_and_read_async(
    message,
    GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT,
    null,
    (session, result) => {
        if (message.get_status() === Soup.Status.OK) {
            let bytes = session.send_and_read_finish(result);
            let decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');
            let response = decoder.decode(bytes.get_data());
            console.log(`Response: ${response}`);
        }
    }
);

GJS

TIP

There were no relevant changes to GJS in GNOME 43.