dash-to-panel Gnome extension broken in 20.09

[Dehumanizer77]

Describe the bug
In NixOS 20.09, the dash-to-panel Gnome extension stopped working and produces unexpected behaviour

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. install gnomeExtensions.dash-to-panel package along with gnome3 desktop manager
2. log in
3. run any application

Expected behavior
The application works normally.

Screenshots

Additional context
When an application is launched, it can't be interacted with, clicking anywhere within the application doesn't do anything, the window is in the foreground and focus is on the small X in the blue circle with the application name (see screenshot), which, if clicked, closes the application.

Notify maintainers
@Mounium

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.4.78, NixOS, 20.09.2016.19db3e5ea27 (Nightingale)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.9
• channels(root): "nixos-20.09.2016.19db3e5ea27"
• channels(johny): "nixos-20.09.2016.19db3e5ea27, unstable-21.03pre253635.2247d824fe0"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[isobit]

TL;DR this should be fixed in v39 of dash-to-panel, dash-to-panel v38 and GNOME 3.36.5 are incompatible.

Ran into the same thing I but I think I figured out the issue. Found this in my journal:

.gnome-shell-wr[2743]: JS ERROR: TypeError: this._syncWorkspacesFullGeometry is not a function
                                                 _newUpdateWorkspacesViews@/run/current-system/sw/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-panel@jderose9.github.com/panelManager.js:563>
                                                 show@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/workspacesView.js:612:14
                                                 show@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/viewSelector.js:276:33
                                                 _animateVisible@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/overview.js:580:27
                                                 show@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/overview.js:566:14
                                                 toggle@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/overview.js:689:18
                                                 _initializeUI/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:220:22

From what I can tell digging around in the dash-to-panel issues, here's what happened:

1. GNOME 3.36.4 contained a breaking change which affected dash-to-panel v37 and below
2. dash-to-panel released a fix with v38 to work with GNOME 3.36.4 (Freeze on GNOME Shell 3.36.4 Overview home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel#1074)
3. GNOME 3.36.5 reverted the breaking change, breaking dash-to-panel v38 (Not working with gnome-shell 3.36.5 home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel#1139)
4. dash-to-panel releases another fix with v39 to work with GNOME 3.36.5 (https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel/releases/tag/v39)

NixOS 20.09 currently uses GNOME 3.36.5 and dash-to-panel v38, so dash-to-panel needs to be upgraded to at least v39.

@Dehumanizer77 there may be a way to install a more up-to-date version of dash-to-panel (e.g. from nixos-unstable) as a workaround although I haven't looked into this myself yet.

[eduardosm]

What's keeping from updating dash-to-panel in 20.09?

[jtojnar]

Someone needs to bacport the update and make sure it works 🤷‍♀️ cc @Mounium (listed as maintainer) and @buckley310 who last updated it.

[buckley310]

If anyone here feels like testing the PR and posting their results over there, that's the next step in getting this fixed.

[Dehumanizer77]

@isobit I can confirm installing version 40 from nixos-unstable does fix the issue.

[stale]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[buckley310]

20.09 has been superseded. Closing.