Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 19:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote: > My original goal was to modify the appDisplay.js file to change > the number of columns of the application overview. I suppose that > rebuilding the whole gnome-shell package is a bit of an overshot for > that purpose, especially since it would

Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-03 Thread Bob Andrew
Le lundi 03 octobre 2016 à 16:04 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 15:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote: > > > > I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter > > way > > than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what > > is > > the interest of

Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 15:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote: > I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter way > than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what is > the interest of extracting resource files through gresource, except > maybe not having to download the

Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-03 Thread Bob Andrew
Thank you Simon. I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter way than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what is the interest of extracting resource files through gresource, except maybe not having to download the whole source? Anyway, I'll go the longer

Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 11:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote: > However, these posts do not explain how to make the changes > permanent. > > I tried to recompile the libgnome-shell.so file using 'glib-compile- > resources resources.gresource.xml' but managed only to break gnome- > shell. What am i missing?

Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

2016-10-01 Thread Bob Andrew
In previous versions of gnome-shell it was possible to do a lot of tweaking through the .js files. These files appear to have been wrapped up since Gnome 3.12, as explained here: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/03/24/keeping-gnome-shell-approach able A slightly more recent post recaps the up