9:07 a.m.
There will be a "GNOME Shell and Extensions" Test Day on Thursday!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-15_Gnome_Shell_and_Extens...
Here's an introduction from Vitezslav Humpa, who's in charge of this event from QA
perspective:
While Fedora 17 Test Day cycle is starting to take speed, this week's Test Day is
focusing on Gnome 3 again, in particular the gnome-shell extension management. Since the
release of the new Gnome about a year ago there has been a great progress in ways one can
customize it. Remember applets, desktop widgets etc. back in Gnome 2? Missed them? Now we
have all that back in form of Gnome shell extensions! Shell's architecture makes it
relatively painless to make them and lots of useful extensions are already out.
There are several ways one can manage them. In addition to having gnome-tweak-tool,
extension management has also been integrated with web browsers and
https://extensions.gnome.org/. There you can search for and install extensions as well as
generally manage them - all directly from the web. Haven't tried it yet? Go on,
it's really nice! And while you're at it, you can kill two birds by a single stone
by joining the Fedora Test Day as you explore the world of customizing your Gnome.
Date: 2012-03-15
Time: all day
What: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-15_Gnome_Shell_and_Extens...
Where: #fedora-test-day
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10:07 a.m.
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:07 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
There will be a "GNOME Shell and Extensions" Test Day on
Thursday!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-15_Gnome_Shell_and_Extens...
Here's an introduction from Vitezslav Humpa, who's in charge of this
event from QA perspective:
While Fedora 17 Test Day cycle is starting to take speed, this week's
Test Day is focusing on Gnome 3 again, in particular the gnome-shell
extension management. Since the release of the new Gnome about a year
ago there has been a great progress in ways one can customize it.
Remember applets, desktop widgets etc. back in Gnome 2? Missed them?
Now we have all that back in form of Gnome shell extensions! Shell's
architecture makes it relatively painless to make them and lots of
useful extensions are already out.
There are several ways one can manage them. In addition to having
gnome-tweak-tool, extension management has also been integrated with
web browsers and https://extensions.gnome.org/. There you can search
for and install extensions as well as generally manage them - all
directly from the web. Haven't tried it yet? Go on, it's really nice!
And while you're at it, you can kill two birds by a single stone by
joining the Fedora Test Day as you explore the world of customizing
your Gnome.
I know this should most likely be directed at upstream Gnome, but would
it be possible to redesign extensions.gnome.org so that it's... usable?
I mean, it's a list of extensions, ten to a page, ordered by popularity,
name or number of downloads.
Would it be so hard to add tags or categories of functionality? Right
now, I have to read through fourteen pages (and growing!) to get any
idea of whether an extension happens to provide a feature I might want.
I like gnome-shell, and I'd like to tweak it a little bit to fit my
needs better. But the extension website is so difficult to navigate that
it's really a deterrent. It will only get worse as people continue to
write new extensions (which, because of the default ordering of
"popularity" will always show up in the later pages of the site first).
1:04 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:07 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> There will be a "GNOME Shell and Extensions" Test Day on Thursday!
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-15_Gnome_Shell_and_Extens...
>
> Here's an introduction from Vitezslav Humpa, who's in charge of this
> event from QA perspective:
>
> While Fedora 17 Test Day cycle is starting to take speed, this week's
> Test Day is focusing on Gnome 3 again, in particular the gnome-shell
> extension management. Since the release of the new Gnome about a year
> ago there has been a great progress in ways one can customize it.
> Remember applets, desktop widgets etc. back in Gnome 2? Missed them?
> Now we have all that back in form of Gnome shell extensions! Shell's
> architecture makes it relatively painless to make them and lots of
> useful extensions are already out.
The site is still being worked on as indicated by the big red "Alpha" label.
Filtering is planned to for GNOME 3.4 which should make finding
extensions easier.
6:36 p.m.
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 11:07 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
I know this should most likely be directed at upstream Gnome, but would
it be possible to redesign extensions.gnome.org so that it's... usable?
I mean, it's a list of extensions, ten to a page, ordered by popularity,
name or number of downloads.
Would it be so hard to add tags or categories of functionality? Right
now, I have to read through fourteen pages (and growing!) to get any
idea of whether an extension happens to provide a feature I might want.
I like gnome-shell, and I'd like to tweak it a little bit to fit my
needs better. But the extension website is so difficult to navigate that
it's really a deterrent. It will only get worse as people continue to
write new extensions (which, because of the default ordering of
"popularity" will always show up in the later pages of the site first).
Thanks for the feedback.
We have recently added search to the website, and some other
improvements may still land before we remove the 'alpha' label from it.
If you want to report your problem in more detail, feel free to go to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=website&component=ex...
- or just walk by Jaspers desk.
Matthias
12:14 p.m.
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 19:36 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 11:07 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
> I know this should most likely be directed at upstream Gnome, but would
> it be possible to redesign extensions.gnome.org so that it's... usable?
> I mean, it's a list of extensions, ten to a page, ordered by popularity,
> name or number of downloads.
>
> Would it be so hard to add tags or categories of functionality? Right
> now, I have to read through fourteen pages (and growing!) to get any
> idea of whether an extension happens to provide a feature I might want.
>
> I like gnome-shell, and I'd like to tweak it a little bit to fit my
> needs better. But the extension website is so difficult to navigate that
> it's really a deterrent. It will only get worse as people continue to
> write new extensions (which, because of the default ordering of
> "popularity" will always show up in the later pages of the site first).
Thanks for the feedback.
We have recently added search to the website, and some other
improvements may still land before we remove the 'alpha' label from it.
If you want to report your problem in more detail, feel free to go to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=website&component=ex...
- or just walk by Jaspers desk.
Ask and ye shall receive:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672008
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