On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Scott S. McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I'm searching for documentation, information, notes etc on any existing > or planned gnome shell extension APIs will be designed and exposed. So far > I haven't found much, does anything exist or is this early enough that the > plans are mostly non-existent?
This breaks down in 3 ways: 1) "Plugins": Additional code with a well-defined API for a specific part of the shell. Example: new search types. For this we will be adding APIs incrementally. 2) "Extensions" (Firefox style): We load your javascript, you can do whatever you want via monkey-patching, etc. I have a patch for this in-progress: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599661 3) "Applets": No plans for additional items on the panel at this time. However, we have experimented with a sidebar for larger "widgets/gadgets". I think probably what will work out a bit better is a dedicated desktop for them. The development API for them of course is another issue, but I'd like to start from the use cases (CPU monitor, weather display). _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
