Re: Active Applications list

[Sean Brady <sbrady gtfservices com>]

On 06/24/2010 03:27 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> Every extension is represented as a folder inside one of the GNOME
> Shell extension folders (/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions and
> ~/.local/share/extensions). The name of this folder is the ID of the
> extension, which is purposefully similar to an email. In this case it
> is activeapps scampa giovanni gmail com, if you notice the part after
> @ is my email with @ transformed into a dot.
> Inside the extension you find the stylesheet (which is copied
> unmodified from the example extension included with gnome-shell, and
> it's not actually used), some metadata in json form, and finally the
> code, which is extension.js.
> GNOME Shell automatically recognizes any folder in the extension
> directory, whose name is a valid ID and whose metadata is correct.
> Therefore, by only having that folder inside your local extension
> directory, upon restarting the shell you should see an application
> list next the application menu.
> Please note that this extension has been tested against current GIT HEAD.
> For more informations on extensions: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions
>
> If you have any doubt, don't hesitate to mail me :)
>
> Giovanni
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So, for those of use using jhbuild, how can we test this out?  I don't 
see an extensions folder anywhere in ~/gnome-shell