Bluefin currently ships with tailscale-qs , rather than the more popular tailscale-status extension. I’m wondering about the rationale behind this, since: tailscale-status has 3x the downloads on gnome extensions and 3x stars on github tailscale-qs is unusable with larger tailnets as the node list …

Looking at the time of switching, F38 → F39 was when gnome moved to version 45 making a lot of extensions incompatible. Maybe at the time of releasing tailscale-status wasn’t ready yet. Digging on the github side, seems they thought it was a better fit with gnome I…

thank you for digging up that issue, “better UX fit” (presumably fitting in the drawer) is a fair argument though the too-many-devices issue is still a deal breaker for me will override-remove the -qs one for now and open an issue with them on fixing the node list, though I’m not sure if that UI co…

it does look like there’s a PR for multiple accounts, which is the other blocker for me: Add support to multiple accounts (tailscale profiles) by sydro · Pull Request #27 · joaophi/tailscale-gnome-qs · GitHub however it’s not clear if the maintainer is active enough to merge such changes, if that p…

[image] parkan: tailscale-qs is unusable with larger tailnets as the node list is displayed by default, which causes the settings to be pushed off the edge of the screen and become unreachable Yeah this has been annoying.

Someone file an issue and we can investigate swapping them out.

I’ve been testing this in daily driving and have actually ran into some issues with permissions and occasionally stale state in the widget. If I get this resolved I’ll open the issue.

looks like tailscale-gnome-qs is about to merge profile switching support and collapsible node list: Add support to multiple accounts (tailscale profiles) by sydro · Pull Request #27 · joaophi/tailscale-gnome-qs · GitHub this obviates the suggestion here :slight_smile:

merged, looking forward to switching back: Add support to multiple accounts (tailscale profiles) by sydro · Pull Request #27 · joaophi/tailscale-gnome-qs · GitHub

Should be in the next set of builds. :smiley: Build 8838904 in ublue-os/staging

Prefer Tailscale Status over Tailscale QS

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parkan November 22, 2024, 6:27am 2

hmm ok I see in the original announcement that tailscale-status was used initially, but it’s not clear why it was left behind

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