hi; On 13 May 2014 16:17, Jon Kristensen <i...@jonkri.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:38 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> > 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/ > > Hi, again! > > Thanks for your answers! > > I have a follow-up question in regards to these extracted files. > > I got going with extensions development by iteratively installing the > extension under development, pressing Alt+F2, and typing 'r' to restart > GNOME Shell and thus reload the extension. This is a bit cumbersome, and > it seems to me that I might be Doing It Wrong.
that's pretty much how extensions work, so no: it's expected. > Is there some way that I > could run the extension without restarting GNOME Shell, such as by > running it with gjs? no, you can't. > If I try to run the extension.js file using gjs, I'm getting a warning > like "(gjs:4023): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error: No JS module 'ui' > found in search p...@extension.js:14". When I add a path to the "js" > directory using imports.searchPath.unshift, I get an error saying > "(gjs:4055): Gjs-CRITICAL **: JS ERROR: SyntaxError: syntax error > @ .../js/ui/endSessionDialog.js:46 JS_EvaluateScript() failed". > > This fails at some D-Bus introspection XML, or something like that. > Should I perhaps "import" libgnome-shell.so instead? How would I do > that? you don't. extensions are executed in the shell process, so you can't use them outside of it. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ javascript-list mailing list javascript-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript-list
