Re: Start a gnome-shell-extensions repository / module

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 16:45 +0100, Giovanni Campagna a écrit :
> I don't agree with this. Some extensions are installed per user, but
> some will be installed by the system administrator in a system path (and
> locked down), or some will be installed automatically by specialistic
> distros, or some will require a package because gnome-shell is patched.
> Or just it will be provided by distros to make life easier for users
> (think of the ubuntu additions to firefox to install plugins from the
> repositories).
> There are various reasons for distributions to ship
> gnome-shell-extensions (maybe not now, because we don't actually have
> many), even if addons.gnome.org becomes a reality.
> (And don't forget that instead of addons.gnome.org it may be
> addons.fedoraproject.org / addons.ubuntu.com / addons.debian.org, so
> distribution packages would make sense even in that case)
Agreed. That's the same issue as for other kinds of extensions (Firefox,
OpenOffice...). It would really be nice to find a solution to integrate
better with package management systems to avoid the mess of each app
upgrading extensions and annoying users with different upgrade dialogs
(plus instability...).

But I'm not sure you can fix this problem alone. ;-) addons.gnome.org is
an interesting idea, and the Shell extensions could integrate into that
framework, it if is eventually implemented.


Cheers