extensions.gnome.org launches
Posted Dec 1, 2011 23:42 UTC (Thu) by
paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
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extensions.gnome.org launches by ovitters
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extensions.gnome.org launches
That would be me :-) Battery percentage indicator was already reviewed and accepted!
The website is nice and the submission process was a piece of cake¹. Writing the extension, not so much, since the whole API is largely undocumented and I had to inspect the Shell's source to understand several things about how things work. Still, it didn't take me more than a few hours, and that's for a Javascript and GNOME beginner.
I'm not sure exactly how I feel about the whole approach to the problem though I'd probably prefer having an official tree where people could contribute their crap extensions and these would be reviewed, maintained and forward-ported by the GNOME team (i.e. something similar with Linux's merge-things-upstream policy) but the success of Mozilla Addons can't really be ignored here
¹: With a bit of a worry about the copyright & license, for which I promptly filed a bug for.
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