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Bug 527414 - installing extensions is not intuitive
installing extensions is not intuitive
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-10 20:23 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2012-12-11 17:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2008-04-10 20:23:15 UTC 
To install extensions, a user has to "know" that he must mkdir -P ~/.gnome2/epiphany/blahblah/extensions && extract some stuff there && activate the extension. Not what I call intuitive.

There should be a possibility to have an "Install extensions" or "Add" button, just like the gnome appearance capplet allows you to add themes easily without knowing an obscure place to extract themes to.

The appearance capplet even allows you to drag and drop a url with a theme contained in an archive (such as .tar.gz) and it will fetch & install everything.

Epiphany should be able to do the same with extensions.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-04-27 22:55:54 UTC 
Daniel Schierbeck suggested Capuchin (formerly known as NewStuffManager):

http://capuchin.k-d-w.org/
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-04-28 10:40:17 UTC 
Please, no capuchin, don't make a core functionality of epiphany dependent on Mono.
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-04-28 11:05:12 UTC 
Hmm. I didn't know it wasn't Python any more. However, my personal feeling about this is that it would be good to support installing extensions via Capuchin, without taking away the possibility to do it by hand, as still required at this moment. If running a Mono app is a big objection for someone, there is still the possibility of implementing a non-Mono extension installer that listens to the same D-BUS calls.
Comment 4 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2012-12-11 17:55:19 UTC 
We don't have extensions. Closing for now.