Hi, your interest in GNOME Shell is very much appreciated! It is great to see that kind of interest not only from users, but from application developers as well. On mar, 2010-03-23 at 11:52 +0100, Alexandre Vázquez wrote: > But I already have a few of questions about that. Sorry I they are > very stupid or illogical. Don't worry, stupid and illogical questions are part of the job ;) ... and your question are not at all stupid or illogical! > * At this moment, I can create a 'gadget/plugin' that interacts > with the Sidebar of the GNOME Shell? Yes, but it is probably not a good idea right now. The sidebar is pretty much unmaintained - it will either change significantly (in terms of both design and code) or be removed entirely. > * At this moment, I can create a 'gadget/plugin' that interacts > with the 'Message Try' (Down of the Screen) of the GNOME > Shell? No, you can't - it is planned to let applications integrate with the message summary (those icons in the bottom right corner) instead of (ab)using the status notification area, but right now there's nothing except mockups[1] (I think there are more current mockups, but I'm unable to find those right now). GNOME Shell has some (rudimentary) support for extensions[2] which can be used to extend the core interface (think Firefox add-ons here), but it's probably not what you want - it depends on the kind of application you want to integrate, but chances are that the message summary is the way to go. This means that you probably should either wait until there's an API to integrate with the message tray or (preferably!) join the discussion about what kind of API is needed by application developers. > * At this momento, is there any 'gadgets/plugin' inside the > gnome-shell trunk? There are the existing sidebar widgets[3] - as mentioned before, the future of those is completely uncertain, so it does not make too much sense putting any effort in here. I hope those answers didn't disappoint you too much - we definitively want applications to integrate into GNOME Shell, it is just not very clear yet how's it gonna look like. [1] http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/screenshots/clips/20100122204135/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions [3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/widget.js
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