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  • The extensions installed on this computer, in a list: the user's (in
    ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions) first, then the system's, each with its name, UUID
    and version. Nothing is changed yet: the list only looks
  • A check for new versions of the user's extensions, when Gextant starts and from the refresh
    button, against two places asked separately: the extension's repository, found from the url
    in its metadata.json (GitHub and GitLab, including *.github.io and *.gitlab.io project
    pages, and a project page on another domain that links to the repository), and
    extensions.gnome.org (for the running GNOME Shell's version)
  • Each place shows as a chip, its icon with the version it has, in the colour of how it stands
    against what is installed: green if that is up to date, blue if it has something newer, grey
    if the two cannot be compared, yellow with a ? where it has no version to give (no releases,
    a rate limit, a failed check, no repository found), the tooltip saying which. Places that
    agree make one chip with their icons together; the installed version shows by itself, with
    the computer icon, only where no chip has it. Long versions are shortened, in full in the
    tooltip
  • Versions are compared as the repository's tags say them (v2.5.0), or, for the many
    extensions that carry only the number extensions.gnome.org gave them, against that number
    where the tag has it too (v66, extensions.gnome.org-v110, 2.2.0+10)
  • What was found is kept for 6 hours (a day where there is no repository), so a start does not
    ask every extension again; the refresh button always asks again
  • Repositories are read from the forge's own pages, which cost no API quota. Preferences keep an
    optional access token for GitHub and one for GitLab (gitlab.com only, never sent to another
    GitLab server) in the keyring, used when the pages are limited or do not know a private
    repository; each comes with a link that fills in the token's name and permissions
  • Banners when a forge's rate limit is used up (naming it, and offering Preferences where a
    token would help) and when a forge refuses a token (expired or revoked)
  • An About dialog in the main menu, with a Support page that links to where the development can
    be supported (Ko-fi, GitHub Sponsors, Liberapay)
  • Packages with each release: a Flatpak bundle, a tarball and a .deb, and the AUR packages
    gextant, gextant-bin and gextant-git; make install installs for the current user. The
    Flatpak reads the user's extensions folder on the host (read-only) and asks the Shell for its
    version over D-Bus; it does not list the system's extensions