Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

[drago01]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/29/2011 09:47 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the
>>> gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the
>>> same plans or are already working on this, please let me know.
>>> So we can avoid doing double work.
>>
>> Did you do this? It's the only thing that makes GNOME shell usable for
>> me. I've been holding off on updating too many machines to F15 until
>> it's properly available; I prefer not to install the package from
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> I don't even see a review request in bugzilla yet...
>
> I'm afraid I never got around to it, I still intend to do it,
> but likely not before LinuxCon Vancouver, so if anyone wants
> to beat me to the punch that would make me very happy :)
>
> I'll gladly review it once packaged.
>
> As discussed before I think it would be best to package
> this with subpackages with each containing one of the
> frippery extenstions, and then have the main package
> be an empty package which just requires all the others, so
> that people who want to can easily install the entire
> bundle.

Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be
like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click
"install" to install an extension.
Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream.