GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 643240
Add UI for enabling / disabling extensions
Last modified: 2011-05-11 23:17:59 UTC
Okay, the extension story for 3.0 is just not there, but since we have some form of UI in the Looking Glass, why not add the only missing part, that is, extension management? This would allow distribution to provide gnome-shell-extensions as a tech preview and install with everything disabled. Not part of the default, and definitely not what we want to see in 3.2, but still enough for large testing of available extensions - which is somehow a usability test for mainline design (in particular the dock, the auto-move-windows and the alternate-tab). (Not picking "extensions" as component, since this is not a bug in the extensions, rather in the extension system)
Created attachment 181874 [details] [review] ExtensionsSystem: add UI for enabling/disabling extensions Leverage the existing extension UI in the Looking Glass and add Enable / Disable commands, that change the setting and prompt to restart the shell (Firefox-style).
Review of attachment 181874 [details] [review]: I'd rather have this in System Settings; Jon, can we wedge this into "System Info"? Maybe only show it *if* you have an extension installed?
No, it doesn't belong in system settings.
*** Bug 613654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Maybe this could be done with gnome-tweak-tool ? It's pretty annoying installing gnome-shell-extensions and have so simple way to enable/disable extensions.
Created attachment 187245 [details] tweak_extension Extension management This is an extension I did for gnome-tweak-tool. It's not exactly clean but it's working.
@gnome-shell devs please reasign this bug to gnome-tweak-tool if you think that is where this sort of UI should go...
Created attachment 187533 [details] tweak_settings It now use the gsettings instead of moving files in and out of the folder.
Created attachment 187534 [details] [review] Small modification to gsettings.py to support list of string
(In reply to comment #8) > Created an attachment (id=187533) [details] > tweak_settings > > It now use the gsettings instead of moving files in and out of the folder. Thanks for the patch. I have reworked this a little and will commit it tonight.
Thank's looking forward to see the changes soon.
moving to gnome-tweak tool as Colin Veto'd this in the shell and Jon McCann Veto'd this in control-center. I added a UI to do this in gnome-tweak-tool This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.