Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:29 AM, D.H. Bahr <dbahr uci cu> wrote:

Hello everyone!
At Nova we have a service we call Customized OS: on which we create a GNU/Linux Distro molded for specific customer's needs. As from the arrival of G3 we have started thinking on adding to this service a Customized Desktop Environment, since GShell loads arbitrary _javascript_ code it shouldn't be so hard, but the thing is it loads the code from a specific location.
I know the customization of G3 could (and should) be done at extensions level, but it doesn't feel right to do so in this particular case: we want to develop a customized Desktop Environment, not a GShell patched to look different, and we certainly would rather avoid renaming the libraries so GShell and whatever we call the new environments could coexist on the repository.
This brings me to the question in question: is it (could it be) possible to specify as an argument to gnome-shell to state where should the _javascript_ code be loaded from??

There is, but it's considered for internal and development use only. In my opinion, the extensions system is the only supported way of modifying the Shell. Of course, distros are free to patch the code directly. May I ask what kinds of chnages you want to make to the Shell to give you the best solution? If there are specific thing you'd like the extensions system to do, I'd gladly help you along with that.

Best regards, and keep with the great work,

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Sw.E. D.H. Bahr

Nova Desktop Development Leader

CESOL (Free/Libre Software Centre)

UCI (University of Informatics Sciences)

Havana, Cuba

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  Jasper