Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions

Posted May 10, 2011 6:39 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions by vladimir
Parent article: Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions

"I think the issue here is what appears to be arbitrary changes to the desktop that are not fixable by run-of-the-mill users, i.e. the vast majority of us who don't write JavaScript and don't know the GNOME shell API"

The vast majority can install and use Firefox extensions just fine even though they don't know how it works usually. As long as they are readily available as easily enabled, users can install them just fine. Extension developers will have to understand it but we have dozens of gnome shell extensions already within the span of a few weeks and are already providing capabilities not available in GNOME 2.x. This is just the beginning.

Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions

Posted May 10, 2011 16:34 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (guest, #36106) [Link] (2 responses)

Installing extensions for Firefox is a bit different and always was pretty simple even from the start. For gnome shell there's no UI for installing or managing extensions and no obvious way to know that any exist.

Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions

Posted May 10, 2011 17:31 UTC (Tue) by coulamac (guest, #21690) [Link] (1 responses)

Not yet. That's something the Gnome folks are working on and hopefully will be ready for 3.2.

Some interesting GNOME Shell extensions

Posted May 11, 2011 8:35 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

I think this is a big enough feature omission that GNOME should apologize and retroactively call 3.0 an alpha.