On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 21:50 +0800, 邓尧 wrote: > Hi, > > I feel it's very inconvenience to use gnome-shell without the YAWL > extension. The extension is only partially functional under 3.12, and > the author has already abandoned it. > After some extensive Googling with no luck, I decided to fix it > myself. I'm planning to start with API changes > > I'm new to gnome-shell extension development, any suggestion would be > appreciated.
Writing gnome shell extensions is more a patching operation than developing with an API. Writing Gnome Shell Extensions requires access to the shell source code. The shell sources became binary as gresouces with version 3.12. The sources must be extracted for examination. The following links may be of help to you. http://worldofgnome.org/how-to-extract-shell-from-gresource https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/03/24/keeping-gnome-shell-approachable/ With sources of the older shell and the extension you can examine the newer shell code to determine what has changed. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is a quite a task to duplicate an extension's functionality in the new shell. As an example I have a small personal extension I moved from 3.10 (35 lines) to 3.16 (207 lines). At first look I said to myself I'm not sure this can be done. It took a completely different approach and a re-write. I hope this is helpful. Regards, Norman -- "The source code is the documentation.", uttered by so many. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
