Search Light does not work on GNOME 50.1 even after manually adding GNOME 50 to shell-version

[AaryaBalan]

Environment

• GNOME Shell: 50.1
• Ubuntu GNOME
• Search Light Extension: v50

Issue

Search Light is marked as incompatible with GNOME 50 because the extension metadata only lists GNOME 48 and 49.

For testing, I manually added "50" to the shell-version array in metadata.json and re-enabled the extension.

What happens

After manually adding GNOME 50 support:

• Extension can be enabled successfully.
• Preferences window opens normally.
• Keyboard shortcuts can be configured.
• Panel icon appears in the top bar.

However:

• Clicking the Search Light panel icon does nothing.
• Triggering configured shortcuts does nothing.
• No search popup appears.
• No obvious GNOME Shell errors are shown when triggering the extension.

Expected behavior

The Search Light popup should open when the configured shortcut is pressed or when the panel icon is clicked.

Additional information

The extension appears to load partially on GNOME 50.1 (preferences and UI settings work), but the actual search window never appears even after manually adding GNOME 50 to shell-version.

[salixhost]

Since icedman seems to have abandoned the project I forked it to make it gnome 50 (and on) compatible.
I also fixed a bunch of bugs that caused crashes and features that didn't work.
I'll request it to be on extensions.gnome.org when I'm more sure I've got all bugs ironed out, but if you wanna try it now have a look at the source.
https://git.salix.host/salix/searchlightng