Description of problem: Gnome-shell is highly unstable when extensions are installed are enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Intermitent Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a random selection of approximately 12 shell extensions 2. Enable shell extensions 3. Watch as gnome-shell crashes and burns Actual results: With extensions installed, gnome-shell SEGVs often and/or the shell becomes laggy. Only a small subset of the available third-party extensions work well with any given version of the gnome shell. Upgrading Fedora distros typically entails disabling all shell extensions, and then re-enabling them one by one in order to find out which ones work with the newly-installed distro. Expected results: If extensions are offered to the user as a feature of the shell, then the shell should still be usable even when a given extension is ill behaved. The design of the shell should provide robust compartmentalisation from ill-behaved extensions. Analogously, if a single process is ill behaved, the kernel should continue to run. Additional info:
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218402
See also: https://github.com/zpydr/gnome-shell-extension-taskbar/issues/166
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