From a420acab1e197c0c4a2f2b960f3bf1e6b8043caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Tojnar Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 23:53:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] release notes: Mention automated gnomeExtensions https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/118232 --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml index 753ceacb763..da916161d97 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml @@ -1101,6 +1101,11 @@ environment.systemPackages = [ This prevents NVRAM from filling up, which ensures the latest diagnostic data is always stored and alleviates problems with writing new boot configurations. + + + Nixpkgs now contains automatically packaged GNOME Shell extensions from the GNOME Extensions portal. You can find them, filed by their UUID, under gnome38Extensions attribute for GNOME 3.38 and under gnome40Extensions for GNOME 40. Finally, the gnomeExtensions attribute contains extensions for the latest GNOME Shell version in Nixpkgs, listed under a more human-friendly name. The unqualified attribute scope also contains manually packaged extensions. Note that the automatically packaged extensions are provided for convenience and are not checked or guaranteed to work. + +