Subject: bug#37248: GNOME and Icecat problems

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:30:04 +0000

There are several problems with using GNOME 3.28 and Icecat 60 on Guix, many of which impact each other.

1. The gnome-tweaks package can't find gnome-shell extensions from the gnome-shell-extensions
package, and so claims none are installed.  
This is a packaging problem because on normal distributions, packaged extensions are visible to gnome-tweaks.
2. The stock "Web" browser is not able to install shell extensions.  This may be an upstream bug.
3. Icecat can not install gnome-shell extensions because the Native Connector is not packaged in
Guix.  Despite the misleading name, this is the tool needed.

    https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShellIntegrationForChrome/Installation

4. Icecat is unable to sign in to Firefox sync.  This is apparently fixed in 68.