Extension List For Linux

If you were to ask all GNOME users, there's a very good chance that more than half of them like GNOME Shell extensions. I mean, what's not to like - a simple way of supercharging the GNOME system with little to no effort.

GNOME Shell extensions are also remarkably easy to install (thanks to a little useful app called Extension Manager), and they're super lightweight, which means that you can install a large number of them without having to worry that they'll eventually bog down your system.

However, when you have many extension installed, you're probably not using all of them at once. Hence, if you're looking for a quick and efficient way of managing your GNOME Shell extensions, then you should check out Extension List.

As its name states, Extension List, well, displays a list of all your installed GNOME extensions. It's heavily inspired from another, very similar project called Extensions. Like most extensions, it lives in the top panel. It boasts a very simple, yet somewhat strange GUI.

Click its icon and you're provided with a list of all the GNOME extensions installed on your system. You'll also notice that there are a couple of interesting/fun icons at the bottom of its GUI.

The easiest way to understand what all those icons mean and do (it's also weird that they don't have any sort of tool tips), is to open the extension's Settings section.

For example the smiley-like icon allows you to hide/show disabled extension from the list. The trashcan icon, obviously, allows you to toggle delete buttons for each extension. The arrow-thingy allows you to toggle URL button for all your extensions, while the eye icon allows you to pin or unpin extensions from the list.

Also, please note that the dot ornament (from the left side of the GUI) means the extension is enabled. Clicking the item in question (any installed extension) will enable/disable it.

Extension List is a nice little extension that is bound to be of certain help to those who often have to deal with enabling and disabling various extensions in order to do their work. It's quite simple at first glance, but we honestly found the icon-based functionality a bit cumbersome. Not to say that it's profoundly complex, but there's no doubt about the fact that it could have been a bit more straightforward.