[BUG] Port extension to GNOME 45

[neffo]

This GNOME 45 will likely break compatibility with earlier versions of GNOME, and supporting GNOME 45 will likely require some remediation to fix in this extension:

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/

[ttys3]

https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-45.html

[Spinnekop]

Missing my daily bing!

[neffo]

Yeah, I've been putting this off (I'm on Ubuntu 23.04, so haven't moved to GNOME 45). Looking at it though, thanks for your patience!

[scottbeamer]

Yeah, I've been putting this off (I'm on Ubuntu 23.04, so haven't moved to GNOME 45). Looking at it though, thanks for your patience!

This is why the good lord invented virtual machines. :)

Ubuntu 23.10 Beta and Fedora 39 Beta are out, both have GNOME 45 and both are pretty stable.

[IBBoard]

openSUSE Tumbleweed is also running Gnome 45 and is basically permanently stable (and a rolling release, and has btrfs snapshotting built-in with a good management tool!)

[c3101]

+1

[neffo]

Apologies all been swamped with work, but will get this done asap. The wallpapers must flow.

[syahny]

It doesn't work on GNOME 45, I know you're busy, but please check. Please fix it. Thank you.

[IBBoard]

Hey @SeokYoung-Ahn - just so you know, that comes across as a rude and demanding comment given what has already been posted.

Three weeks ago the developer said they were looking at the problem, which shows that they know it is a problem.

Just yesterday they said that they had been busy with work and said that they'd fix it as soon as possible (asap).

Lots of open source developers do this as a hobby. Pushing for things to go faster does not encourage people who are giving their free time and it is disrespectful of that time. And when they've already said why there is a delay then it's doubly disrespectful of their time.

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If anyone else is really desperate to get Bing wallpapers while Neff updates the extension then search for "bing wallpaper archive" in the search engine of your choice and you'll find plenty of wallpaper sites that are archiving them. You may want to have an ad blocker installed before you visit most of them, though!

[ttys3]

currently I use a workaround :

download executable from https://github.com/ttys3/Bismuth/releases/download/v1.3.0/bismuth-Linux-x86_64-musl.tar.gz

install the binary exeutable to /usr/local/bin/bismuth

and install the user cron job:

git clone https://github.com/ttys3/Bismuth.git
cd contribute/systemd
./install.sh

not perfect, but things works.

update: systemd cron not run the second day issue has been resolved.

[greyltc]

I've tested #215 and it solves this issue for me. I've rolled that patch into my package in the AUR for the time being to get the wallpapers flowing for Arch Linux users.

[odror]

That workaround does not work for me on arch. Gnome still ignores the extension because it is not compatible with 45

[neffo]

Ok, I have a working version now #216 . Massive thanks to @mcardillo55 for doing the heavy lifting with PR #215 . Please give him all the thanks for this. I've brought over some small fixes as well (from this branch #203 ), but please let me know how this works.

There are a lot of things I want to bring over from the other branch, but I want to get this version live ASAP. Thanks all for your patience.