When I decided
to install Linux Mint on the EEEPC 900 I was, among other things,
particularly interested by the hidden flexibility of Gnome 3.
Linux Mint interface MGSE
proved Gnome 3 being far more flexible and configurable than I would
ever imagined by seeing it at first.
At last I managed to find some time to give a look on how Gnome 3
extensions are written. There are many sites on the Internet about
developing Gnome extensions I based my experiments mainly on articles
on this blog.
“Hello-worlding” in Gnome-Shell
A command-line utility “gnome-shell-extension-tool”
is provided to prepare all files needed in a gnome-shell extension.
Once executed:
gnome-shell-extension-tool --create-extension
it asks for the extension name, “helloworld”
in my case, some descriptive info and the extension unique
identifier. This identifier can be any string but it takes the
following mail-like form:
<extension-name>@<your-name>.<your-address>.
By the way my extension identifier was “helloworld.musante@EEEPC900”.
By the way my extension identifier was “helloworld.musante@EEEPC900”.
