On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Yaa101 <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:38:09 -0400 > "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote:
... snip ... >> Again, preferences should be done with the new preferences mechanism. > > Yeah, but I only heard about this new system in the previous email. > So I have to redesign that. Yeah. The biggest thing we're missing at the moment is good documentation on the extension system. I don't know what approach to take for that. Feedback and suggestions would be worthwhile on that. > So if I read right there will be an extra config button on the > my extensions page of the extension plugin from my browser? > And that button appears when I add a prefs.js to my extension directory > and that file contains the buildPrefsWidget() function? Correct. > And from that prefs.js I have no problem to use GTK+ its filechooser? Correct. >> >> >> >> >> > I thought it was my coding that made the lockup, so I tried to >> >> > create a js filechooser, today I tried to revisit the attempt on >> >> > Gtk.fileChooser as I made a lot of progress last 2 weeks on gjs. >> >> > >> >> > Can you explain more about the following? >> >> > >> >> >> Note that there is >> >> >> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate >> >> >> process. >> >> >> >> Please see my blog post at: >> >> http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/02/more-extension-api-breaks/ >> >> >> >> Basically, you create a file called 'prefs.js', which inside of it >> >> has a function named 'buildPrefsWidget', which returns some form of >> >> GtkWidget. Some extensions already have preferences -- go to your >> >> Installed Extensions on the website. Do any extensions have a green >> >> preferences icon next to them? >> > >> > No none, only one not working extension (called Media player >> > indicator) has a blue button (with a tools icon) in front of it, >> > but it does not do anything. >> >> Are you using Debian? >> >> > I go read your post... So much to learn still... >> > >> >> >> >> > I am asking all these (maybe obvious for you) questions because I >> >> > have no prior background with GKT+, so besides learning >> >> > gnome-shell I have to learn also the core GTK+ stuff. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > (o_ >> >> > //\ Regards, Groeten, >> >> > V_/_ Bas Burger. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:42 +0200 >> >> > Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> On Jul 16, 2012 6:39 PM, "Yaa101" <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> >> > I am trying to call a filechooser, run it, then get the >> >> >> > filename from it. >> >> >> >> >> >> You can only open override-redirect windows from the window >> >> >> manager itself, which means you cannot use most of GTK+. Note >> >> >> that there is support for extension preferences, which run in a >> >> >> separate process. >> >> >> >> >> >> Florian >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > gnome-shell-list mailing list >> >> > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
