Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 23:03 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:55 PM, ecyrbe <ecyrbe gmail com> wrote:
> > Thank you for the details. I do like what you are doing, just another bunch
> > of questions :
> > - is (validity-check) going to be added to prevent the shell from aborting?
> 
> (validity-check) is an idea that Company had. I have no idea if it's
> feasible, it's there as an idea to increase API stability.
> 
> > if so, do you need help to make patches to gnome-shell libraries
> > depedencies, and gjs as this seems to be a big review work?
> > - shemas installation requires root priviledges (last time i checked), is
> > policikit going to be used for installing extensions?
> 
> I assume that https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649717 will
> be fixed instead.

Me too.

You mentioned in your earlier mail about adding getExtensionStorage()
(and similar). In a similar way perhaps you could provide
getExtensionSettingsSafe(gsettings_schema) which does the list_schema
dance to at least check for missing settings, before creating a settings
object which could crash the shell.

Although I suppose that is not actually required if all uploaded
extensions are audited first - simply prohibit ones that need to install
gsettings [1]

John

[1] It makes me sad that gsettings is unsuitable for this per-user case.
So close, yet so far.