Add support for GNOME 50

[mykgrv]

Extension unsupported for GNOME 50.

PS: The extension has probably been left unreviewed on the gnome extension repository as the actual metadata contains "50" in supported shell versions. So I suggest manually installing it (see readme.md).

[juhp]

See #156, but minimal changes enough get it moving again seem to be:

--- .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/extension.js~	2025-12-11 11:28:42.000000000 +0800
+++ .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/extension.js	2026-04-21 14:06:10.633803996 +0800
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
 
     Main.layoutManager.addChrome(this.mainContainer, {
       affectsStruts: false,
-      affectsInputRegion: true,
+      // affectsInputRegion: true,
       trackFullscreen: false,
     });
 
--- .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/metadata.json~	2025-12-11 02:34:14.000000000 +0800
+++ .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/metadata.json	2026-04-21 13:57:45.924282923 +0800
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
   "schema-id": "org.gnome.shell.extensions.search-light",
   "shell-version": [
     "48",
-    "49"
+      "49",
+      "50"
   ],
   "url": "https://github.com/icedman/search-light",
   "uuid": "search-light@icedman.github.com",
-  "version": 42
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  "version": 42.0
+}

(the version bump may not be strictly needed locally, but I tend to do that just to be sure)

Looking forward to the new release anyway. :-)

Thank you for this great extension!

[Neo-29]

Tested on g50. Very buggy, conflict with many other extensions, makes the shell crash if open you click on dash to dock...
Etc....

[L0GYKAL]

Confirming on Fedora 44 + GNOME Shell 50.1 — the manual patch from @juhp's comment above (commenting out affectsInputRegion and adding "50" to shell-version) gets the extension loading, but as @Neo-29 noted there are still interaction issues on GNOME 50. Happy to test a tagged release when one is cut.

[juhp]

(I see - I always close it with Esc)

[jijojosephk]

I can see version 50 is uploaded but review pending from extensions. This was very useful extension, but not working on gnome-50

[schrieveslaach]

Was looking around why there is no update because commit c662e46 claims to support Gnome 50. For anyone wondering here are too important links:

• The new version of search-light is “unreviewed”: https://extensions.gnome.org/review/70331
• There is a discourse thread that explains why it takes so long: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-50-extension-review-status/34569/19

Meanwhile, cloning it via git clone https://github.com/icedman/search-light.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/ works as a workaround for me.

[dariushm2]

Was looking around why there is no update because commit c662e46 claims to support Gnome 50. For anyone wondering here are too important links:

• The new version of search-light is “unreviewed”: https://extensions.gnome.org/review/70331
• There is a discourse thread that explains why it takes so long: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-50-extension-review-status/34569/19

Meanwhile, cloning it via git clone https://github.com/icedman/search-light.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light@icedman.github.com/ works as a workaround for me.

Looks they finally rejected it with this comment

Sorry for the delay. As mentioned before, schemas/gschemas.compiled needs to be removed.