Gnome Shell

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 13:18:00 UTC 2011


2011/1/28 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
> On 01/28/2011 11:40 AM, drago01 wrote:
>> Stuff like this is supposed to be done via extensions (similar to
>> firefox extension), there is a system monitor extension in the
>> gnome-shell-extensions git repo.
>
> Like the idea of extensions however not seeing system monitor extension
> here..
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions

Seems like the patch has not landed yet see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634080

> And Gnome Shell extension need to be click able to install and or
> searchable through some configuration front end to Gnome Shell like when
> you install wordpress plugins or choose and Add on in Firefox
>
> Making novice end users go through hops like this "./autogen.sh
> --prefix=$HOME/.local --enable-extensions="one two three" make install"
> will never make "Extensions" reach it full potentials..

Sure we are not there yet and I don't expect the extension experience
to be at that level for 3.0 (i.e 3.2 material).


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