Review "Touchpad Switcher" version 15 - GNOME Shell Extensions

Review of "Touchpad Switcher" version 15

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Touchpad Switcher

Touchpad Switcher allows you to easily toggle the touchpad on and off via the GNOME quick settings menu. It also includes an optional indicator to display the current touchpad state in the system tray. P.S. extension icon by icons8.com

Extension Homepage: https://github.com/yanttech/touchpad

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Previous Reviews on this Version

JustPerfection rejected June 28, 2026

1. You cannot get extension's gsettings like that (line 35 `prefs.js`). 2. You cannot leave instance of objects in global scope after window close (line 35 `prefs.js`). Highly recommend to don't old packages (before GNOME Shell 45) since we don't have many distros using them and also hard to maintain. Also, don't send packages here without testing.

yanttech posted a review June 28, 2026

Thanks! Both issues are fixed: switched to ExtensionUtils.getSettings(); removed the global Gio.Settings instance from prefs.js. I did test the extension before uploading it, and it works as expected. Testing was performed in a virtual machine setup. This work was driven by a user request in: https://github.com/gpawru/touchpad/issues/13

JustPerfection posted a review June 28, 2026

Thanks! I hope they can move to the latest LTS or a more updated distros.