Re: Documentation for gnome-shell's Extension API

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 8 May 2014 14:33, Jon Kristensen <info jonkri com> wrote:

> Another API question... This time about gnome-shell extensions.
>
> I'm looking for an accessible way to access an up-to-date JavaScript API
> for gnome-shell extensions development. Is there a web API or something
> similar available somewhere?

shell extensions are executed in the shell context, so they are able
to manipulate shell internals. this means that there's no actual API,
and the reference is the code.

the shell is written using a mix of mutter's API (the Meta namespace);
the Shell Toolkit (St namespace); and Clutter.

> Also, on my Fedora 20 box, I have a bunch of JavaScript files
> in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js that I can look through. However, on an
> Arch Linux installation of mine (running GNOME 3.12), this directory
> doesn't exist.

they are "compressed" into a single binary by default, but they can be
extracted, see this blog post about it:

http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/03/24/keeping-gnome-shell-approachable/

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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