On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:22:15 -0600 "Sankar P" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
