Since 3.3.5, gnome-shell offers an integrated configuration tool
for extensions, which can be used by adding a new "prefs" module.
Replace the old modal dialog with a new gtk dialog, which also allows
to configure the new highlight-selected setting.
Optionally, bring the selected window to front before dismissing
the popup, in a manner similar to cycle-windows keybinding (but
without the rendering artifacts, and without application grouping).
Based on a patch by Pallai Roland <dap@magex.hu>
Mode selection was cleaned up, settings dialog was moved to a
separate file (in preparation for GTK replacement), all classes
were moved to Lang.Class. No big code changes though.
Retrieve Convenience from the extension helper object (Me), and
pass no arguments to initTranslations and getSettings (since the
metadata has all that is required)
Introduce a common settings.mk file, which is included in extensions
that need GSettings, to ensure that conventions are respected, and
necessary fixes can be applied from one place.
Add "gettext-domain", "extension-id" (containing the base part of the
UUID) and "gschemabase" (which, combined with "extension-id", gives
the GSettings schema) to metadata.json, autogenerated by the build
system.
It is not used anymore, now that translations are bundled with
the extension. Also, in the zip files it ended up with my home
folder, which is not nice.
Common code for retrieving translations and GSettings schemas has
been factored out into lib/convenience.js, which is part of
every extension installation.
Since that code relies on renames done at zip file creation time,
extensions can no longer be installed with "make install". Instead,
one should create the zip file and install it with the tweak-tool.
There is also a bash script, local-install.sh, that will install
everything in zip-files.
Also, since the GSettingsSchemaSource code is not yet in a stable
GLib release, extensions using GSettings have seen their stable
shell version removed.
Now, typing "make zip-file" will create a standard zip-file for each
extension, with everything necessary, including translations and GSettings schemas.
These files can then be installed with the tweak-tool or uploaded
at extensions.gnome.org
Based on an earlier patch by Jasper St. Pierre.
To go along GNOME Shell 3.2.1
Also, mark both alternate-tab and dock as generally "working with
3.2", since the most outstanding bugs seem to be fixed now.
We cannot return from show() without creating an AppSwitcher, as it
will subsequently crash in core shell code due to _appSwitcher being null.
We can prevent this by destroying the actor (which will prevent it
from being allocated and thus avoid the crash).
By importing various stuff from core shell, now it works for me.
(In particular, what was missing was setting the modifierMask in
show()).
Also, remove the native mode. Users wishing to have it should just
disable the extension with the standard tools.
GNOME Shell has changed internal API here and there, and this
broke some extensions.
alternate-tab and dock still have issues, I'll try to solve them
post 3.2.0
main() has been replaced by init(), enable() and disable()
at the same time, ensure that all keybindings are correctly taken
(even though alt-tab and alt-shift-tab have the same effect right
now)
Now alternate-tab shows a dialog on first usage, allowing to choose
between native behavior (app icons from all worskpaces), app icons
from current workspace only and window thumbnails only.
Patch written by Joachim Bargsten <dev@bargsten.org>
Extensions that use public Shell API are expected to work for all
stable 3.0 releases, so we skip setting the minor version. (This
means that they'll work in 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 without rebuilding).
Notably absent are auto-move-windows and windowsNavigator, that
hook deep into Shell code and could be broken by next minor release.
GNOME Shell emits a warning when "url" is absent in metadata.json,
adding it costs nothing. Links to the GIT repository because I
found no better page to reference.
Replace the GTK+ based indicator from gnome-settings-daemon with
a native one. Allows to rotate the laptop monitor and to fast open
display preferences.
Depends on bug 621017.
A new extension, originally developed by Thomas Bouffon,
allows to use classic AltTab (window based instead of app based)
in GNOME Shell.
Tested with 2.91.5
Giovanni Campagna
Joachim Bargsten