Everyone loves themes. Doesn’t matter if it’s a text editor or a smart display in the kitchen, we want to be able to easily customize its look and feel to our liking. When setting up a …
As a big fan of KDE Plasma, I feel like this is a huge blunder on their side, and am rather disappointed. I do hope they can move forward learning from this.
As a big fan of KDE Plasma, I feel like this is a huge blunder on their side, and am rather disappointed. I do hope they can move forward learning from this.
I wonder if it applies to GNOME extensions
Haven’t heard anything like that. Doesn’t mean for sure it’s not there, but if it is we would’ve heard of it, considering how popular GNOME is.
If KDE can have it gnome certainly can
In theory: yes.
In practice: depends on how things are implemented
The jump from v5 to v6 is quite a big one. It is understandable things can fall thru the cracks.
Nevertheless, allowing themes (especially of unknown source) to execute arbitrary code is never a good idea.
GNOME extensions aren’t themes, though. They’re executable by design and intuition; they’re basically applets.
However, GNOME does have themes (hidden in the GNOME-Tweaks app) and AFAIK they’re purely CSS.
Well then I wonder if a gnome extension could take over your machine and attack other machines on the network