• pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    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.

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        8 months ago

        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.

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            8 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.

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        8 months ago

        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.

        • Possibly linuxOP
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          8 months ago

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