Re: Extensions "distributions"

[Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein yahoo com>]

Hi Manuel,

As you mentioned, there are extensions on the Gome Extension website ( https://extensions.gnome.org/ ) that  I believe you are suggesting that they be made available "permanent-addons", so that we have a completed alternative to vanilla Gnome 3.18 or later interface.

In other words, a Remix --a Remix in Fedora23 terms, which consists of a basic Gnome, along with user provided Gnome extensions.

I can't see Gnome doing it, but a user group could do so.  I may be prepared to help.

 

Regards

 Leslie

Mr. Leslie Satenstein

Montréal Québec, Canada

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From: Manuel Chaves <manuelchaves gmail com>
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 11:37 PM
Subject: Extensions "distributions"

Hello, I wanted to propose the idea of "extensions distributions", to call it something for now. I think it's great how extensible Gnome is, even if the default experience may not be perfect for some people, they have the ability to modify to their liking through the powerful extension system, and that's great.

As people find and gather these extensions they end up creating a new system, a different experience, maybe a different paradigm, but all under the platform of Gnome. At some point these people may want others to check out their vision of a system, but as far as I know there is no easy way to do this. 

What I'm talking about is a way to, as is already the case with extensions, provide a platform for finding, installing and reviewing "extension distributions" or "gnome distributions". A place where I can provide a package with the wanted extensions that another person can "install" or "activate" and turn their system like the author's. This way people can try different gnome experiences instead of jumping through (GNU) Linux distributions. 

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