On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:22:15 -0600
"Sankar P"
Hi,
Malcolm has been amazing lately: he's been working on packages for various gnome-shell extensions. That's great!
However, I'm a bit reluctant to accept them in G:A and push them to Factory because of the lack of guarantee from upstream about keeping extensions working and I'm afraid we'd have to offer some guarantee ourselves instead -- which we probably don't want to do. The upstream gnome-shell-extensions package is an exception to this, since it's known to be maintained reasonably well.
Instead of putting the extensions in G:A, I was playing with the idea of using a new project for that (say GNOME:shell-extensions). People would easily be able to use extensions there, although we wouldn't provide any hard guarantee. I'm not completely happy with having yet another project, but on the other hand, I'm not sure if there's a better solution.
Opinions?
This may not be a suitable question in this list but on somewhere like ddl.
Is it not a wise idea to have extensions centrally maintained in a repository (like Firefox extensions) so that anybody can install extensions without waiting for their distro to package it for them. I thought with JS used for extensions, it should be trivial to achieve etc. Isn't it so ?
Sankar
Hi This approach has started to gain momentum; https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/SweetTooth http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-June/msg00283.html -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop up 21:41, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.06 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 270.41.06 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org