Hi gnome-mailing-list, I've recently delved into the world of writing gnome shell extensions. Pretty fun, but quite frustrating.
As an introductory exercise I wanted to retrieve a list of all the contacts I have (from gnome-contacts, I guess). In any case, with looking-glass I was able to experiment and discover the following two snippets of code that both return a list of contact IDs. These are similar to what the overview uses when you search to display matching contacts. I searched on '' to get the entire contact list: // METHOD 1: const ContactDisplay = imports.ui.contactDisplay; let csp = new ContactDisplay.ContactSearchProvider(); let contacts = csp.getInitialResultSet(['']); contacts.length // 120 contacts // METHOD 2: const ContactSystem = Shell.ContactSystem; let cs = ContactSystem.get_default(); let contacts2 = cs.initial_search(['']); contacts2.length // 120 contacts However, when I put this exact same code into a gnome shell extension (say the enable() method of extension.js) and `global.log( contacts.length )`, I *always* get 0, that is, it didn't find any contacts. Can anyone tell me why this is and how I can work around it? Do the extensions operate in some sort of quarantined little sandbox that the looking glass doesn't? cheers! _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
