Re: Active Applications list

[Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Sean Brady <sbrady gtfservices com> wrote:
>
>
> 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

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
(or formally, $XDG_DATA_HOME/gnome-shell/extensions)
If it does not exist, create it.
You don't need rebuilding or reinstalling, just restarting the shell
(alt-f2 r), as extensions are not part of the build tree.

Giovanni