Re: The watched pot did not boil. gnome-shell-extension preferences via website problem

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

You can try and add some debugging information in
/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/extensionPrefs/main.js. First thing I would
try would be to remove a bunch of the try/catch statements and see if
they are silently swallowing any errors.

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 19:47 -0300, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>> The website launches the tool like:
>>
>>     gnome-shell-extension-prefs extension:///uuid example com
>>
>> Try that from the command line.
>>
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com> wrote:
>> > Giovanni:
>> >
>> > I hope this is proper use of this list.
>> >
>> > I received your email accepting version 2 of my Activities Button Text
>> > extension.  I downloaded the extension from the website with no problem.
>> > When I attempted to use the gnome shell extension prefs tool via the
>> > website it failed to load the widgets properly (ie. the tool is started
>> > with the extension selected but none of the widgets from prefs.js are
>> > displayed).  I have deactivated the extension until I can sort this out.
>> > I can run /bin/gnome-shell-extension-prefs locally and it works fine.
>> > Your comment "You metaphorically put the pot on the other stove with
>> > your approach in prefs.js, but it's ok :)" may be wrong :(.  I can
>> > change preferences on other extension through my browser.  Now I need
>> > some advice on what to do next. Either there is a problem with the
>> > website or a problem with my prefs.js.  Since it works if I execute the
>> > prefs tool locally I want to think the website method has a bug.
>> >
>> > Norman
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>
> Jasper:
>
> From the command-line "gnome-shell-extension-prefs
> extension:///activities-button-text@nls1729" produces the exact same
> results as from the website.  The extension name is displayed in the
> combobox with no widgets from the local prefs.js.  See attached image
> #1.
>
> I entered  "gnome-shell-extension-prefs
> extension///activities-button-text@nls1729" (mis-typed dropping the ":"
> ). The result is the same as if the tool is executed
> "/bin/gnome-shell-extension-prefs" as would be expected.  See attached
> images #2 and #3.
>
> To quote the the great orator Elmer Fudd, "There's something screwy
> going on around here".
>
> Thanks for your prompt response.
>
> Norman



-- 
  Jasper