Re: gnome (shell) contacts

2012-02-20 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Is there a Gnome Contact API exposed so that a Shell Extension can take care of this? Actually is not the work on Gnome Contacts to provide an API for this, for chatting gnome-shell would reach telepathy and empathy and for mail it would use evolution or the mail program the user has

Re: Mutter: plugins and interface

2011-09-28 Thread Erick Pérez
if you just want to remove the borders on particular window. Nope, on every maximized window. Why not' no expose that libmutter functionality ?. -- Acta est fabula ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

About updating gnome-shell extensions

2011-09-20 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I have this doubt, once your gnome-shell extensions got included in the official repo, which is the process to update it ?, or I don't update it anymore and the gnome-shell-extensions maintainer takes care of that ? I'm super noob to this process, so I'm asking. Thxs in advance -- Acta

Re: gnome-shell extension to switch workspaces with a click

2011-07-20 Thread Erick Pérez
I didn't try it, but there is an extension, workspace-indicator, that you might find useful. I read about it at http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/gnome-shell-workspace-indicator.html An extension by the same name has been added to http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions. It's the

Gnome Shell themes

2011-07-14 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I just read a pst about the changes for Gnome Shell 3.2 and I realized this is something should be included upstream Gnome Shell needs a white default theme; right now you just have the default black theme, and If you're like me using a highly reflective, bad and old screen that theme will

Switching application doesn't remember last one

2011-07-06 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I've been bothered lastly cause the shell doesn't remember which was the last application I used before the one I'm using now. Let me explain. When I switch apps using alt-tab, and I want to switch back, gnome-shell doesn't return to the previous app if the previous one is in other workspace.

Re: Arrow key window selector extension

2011-07-05 Thread Erick Pérez
But thought I'd also float the idea here: using pageUp/pageDown for workspace navigation in the overview mode. It seems like a very natural feature to me, any reasons against it? I think is cool, it does feel natural -- Acta est fabula ___

Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-06-22 Thread Erick Pérez
Because i don't want a separate application with its own UI. I could embed a web control inside the desktop application, but then I've just reimplemented a browser. A terrible, poor one. So I'm using a real browser. Fair enough No. It should work in any browser that supports the HTTP

Application Menu

2011-06-04 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: After doing some not very hard search, I got one question, Why the appliction menu can't have the New Window Item as I does the app icon in the overview, I found is so much easier to click there to open a new window, than having to go all the way to the top-left, and then back to the dash.

Re: Application Menu

2011-06-04 Thread Erick Pérez
I'll do it first thing in the morning. Erick On 05/06/2011, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: The Application menu hasn't really gotten the attention it deserves, so I'd say open a bug with a patch. I see no reason it can't be in there. 2011/6/5 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com

Re: St.Entry and 'newline character'

2011-05-29 Thread Erick Pérez
, though. 2011/5/28 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com Hi: I have a development question. I'm coding an extension and I need to use St.Entry widget from the shell, the problem is that when I load text in it, the newline character doesn't get write. I don'see newlines, but boxes in the text

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Erick Pérez
Nice to hear that this workaround works well for you. I don't think it's a good solution, though. Neither do I, I don't want to see those windows at all, not lying in some less used workspace There are some distinct types of applications that users want running, but not interact with all the

St.Entry and 'newline character'

2011-05-28 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I have a development question. I'm coding an extension and I need to use St.Entry widget from the shell, the problem is that when I load text in it, the newline character doesn't get write. I don'see newlines, but boxes in the text where the newline should be, and then all the text lies in

Sending notification

2011-05-24 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I want to know from the gnome-shell maintainers/developers Which is the preferred way of sending notifications in gnome-shell ? I can think of more than one, And some been hard than others to implement but, and that's why, there should be one way to do it according with the shell design, so

Re: Sending notification

2011-05-24 Thread Erick Pérez
What do you mean? From an extension: For short lived message, use let source = new MessageTray.SystemNotificationSource(); let notification = new MessageTray.Notification(source, Title, Content, { body: Additional content that won't be shown in the banner }); source.notify(notification);

Re: Sending notification

2011-05-24 Thread Erick Pérez
Now I have this problem: I manage to create a Source and a new Notification subclass to add a pair of buttons to the notification, One for Closing and one for doing something else. 1. When the user don't interact with the first notification, the notification stays in the notification bar, and

Re: Workspace-Indicator extension

2011-05-10 Thread Erick Pérez
Did you possibly intend to attach something to your mail? Marcel Yeah the uri, I forgot: Here it is: https://github.com/erick2red/shell-extensions Erick -- El derecho de expresar nuestros pensamientos tiene algún significado tan sólo si somos capaces de tener pensamientos propios. El miedo

Workspace-Indicator extension

2011-05-09 Thread Erick Pérez
Here is a gnome-shell extension that mimic the workspace-indicator of ubuntu Erick -- El derecho de expresar nuestros pensamientos tiene algún significado tan sólo si somos capaces de tener pensamientos propios. El miedo a la libertad, Erich Fromm ___

Mutter: windows decorations

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I don't know if this is the mutter list, but I do know that there's no other so far, or at least I haven't found one. So I'm asking a mutter question. How can I remove the window decorations from the mutter side ? I said 'from the mutter side' cause I know that from the application side I

Main.chrome.addActor to the desktop level

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I've been trying to add an actor to gnome through a extension but I want that to be in the desktop level, so any window could hide it, and I only look a it, when there's no window over it, How can I do that ? Erick Thxs -- El derecho de expresar nuestros pensamientos tiene algún

alternative-status-menu bug and fix

2011-05-06 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: Don't know well where to send a patach for this, so I'm trying here. I installed gnome-shell-extensions from the git repo, and I notice that alternative-status-menu weren't working at al,, so yesterday, I managed to fix it, and here it's the patch. I still don't understand how noone notice

Gnome Shell API or hooks

2011-05-06 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I'm trying to write a extension for Gnome Shell but is painfully slow, cause I haven't any API, or hooks list, or events fired, or something like that, and the process it's like a try and test. Can anyone point in any direction here ? Thxs Erick -- El derecho de expresar nuestros

Slow search in Gnome-shell

2011-05-05 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi everyone: First thought: I installed Gnome-Shell from archlinux a few days a go, and was after a clean pc install, I tried the search ability of the shell and all looks fine, but after a while I notice it started to slow down itself. After that I update my laptop to gnome3 using gnome-shell

Re: Slow search in Gnome-shell

2011-05-05 Thread Erick Pérez
This was omitted in gnome-shell 3.0 because of time constraints. This is top priority for 3.2: https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/FindingAndReminding In the mean time, I'll try to write an extension for it BTW: For the developers, the performance is awesome, and the shell is super

Re: Slow search in Gnome-shell

2011-05-05 Thread Erick Pérez
Erick, what exact version of the Shell are you using? A bug was fixed recently about entries being created for all results, even the ones not being shown. It could be that bug. System Settings System Info Gnome Version 3.0.1 and pacman -Qi gnome-shell is: version 3.0.1 Erick -- El derecho

Re: Named, persistent workspaces

2011-04-27 Thread Erick Pérez
My opinion is it is too much simplistic. And the he says, once the user get used to the workspace life, is kinda tiring everyday, at open your pc, rearrange, mail to workspace 1, browsing topic A to workspace 2, terminal to workspace 3, develop to workspace 4, and so on. Everything you made on

Re: Some suggestions

2011-01-26 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
- The position of the clock looks too much like the title of the entire screen - it feels slightly intrusive. I think it would look far better tucked away to the right, along with the user's name and system tray icons, with adequate spacing in-between. - I actually like it better this way.

Re: New GNOME Shell features

2011-01-20 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
+1 for me, then allow me to add custom search engines like Google Chrome do. Erick -Original Message- From: gnome-shell-list-requ...@gnome.org Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:00 AM To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Subject: gnome-shell-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 30 2. Google is a

Re: Gnome Applets

2010-12-13 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Til now you didn't answer the main question here, and I think you're thinking too much as developer and less as users. First: Users don't really cares about what kind of design regularity or order follow the UI, users cares about if it works like they wants, and if they get what they want

Gnome Applets

2010-12-12 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Hey, you didn't answer, Is there anything design to fill the gap of the olds gnome applets ?, like weather, hamster-applet, inhibit-applet, dictionary, etc. And if is it, where's the documentation or something like that in order to migrate or write the things we want. And let me say I

Re: Gnome Applets

2010-12-12 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
at 01:24 -0300, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote: Hey, you didn't answer, Is there anything design to fill the gap of the olds gnome applets ?, like weather, hamster-applet, inhibit-applet, dictionary, etc. The answer was that there is the notification system (and presistent notifcations which

Re: Gnome Applets

2010-12-08 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Ok, I know applets as they are won’t exist but I mean a way of give the user/developer the chance of present some info or capabilities with most of all ease of access. I mean something like gnome-shell extensions, but so far I read nothing about it, not a smaple, not nothing, so could that be