Hi! > > * No tarballs > > * A README file that requests that distributions *not* package it > > Sorry but I don't understand this. The whole purpose of this is having > extensions in distributors. Why shouldn't they package it? > (A different matter is installing it by default. And of course when > installing the package you should start with all new extensions > disabled, similar to gnome-applets behavior) While distributions seems to happily ignore those README files I see a lot of reasoning behind this. gnome-applets was something you could install and later enable/disable in the UI. gnome-shell-extensions are there once you installed them and they may break the shell completely. As such, it is something that a "normal", "non-tuning" user shouldn't ever see because he doesn't know how to go back to text mode and remove the extension. Maybe the lack of a disable/enable UI is a bug but I don't see this fixed till 3.0 and as such we shouldn't rely on it. Extensions are installed per user and as such package-management doesn't really make sense. There isn't (and shoundn't) be a system-wie extension installation path. Regards, Johannes
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