Hi! > > 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. > The same apply for gnome-shell, and I will work to make it part of GNOME > Shell 3.0 (inside Looking Glass, for now). Well, gnome-applets are out-of-process, they basically cannot kill the panel. And they are far less powerful than extensions, you cannot change look and feel of the desktop significantly. > 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) Yes, they shouldn't *now* and that's why I think it would be bad to make the impression that they should. I don't think they should for 3.0 and we can still discuss about "useful" extensions for 3.2. I am not against creating the repository when somebody cares about it but please don't make releases until the extension system is in a state that distributions can use. I don't think we are in a hurry now... Regards, Johannes
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