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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if it applies to GNOME extensions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well then I wonder if a gnome extension could take over your machine and attack other machines on the network

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If KDE can have it gnome certainly can

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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.