3.6 Feature Proposal: Extension Hook Support and Updates

2012-04-24 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Hey, I'm sort of new to this, so maybe this isn't the best feature proposal ever. Sorry. I'm quite sure you all know what GNOME Shell Extensions are, and how they're a great boon for this platform. If you haven't seen the GNOME Shell Extensions repository and the wide variety of extensions availab

Re: 3.6 Feature Proposal: Extension Hook Support and Updates

2012-04-24 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 03:54 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > As for the "Extension Hook Support", I want to get consensus of a > policy that we won't reject a patch that allows an otherwise > tricky/dirty/impossible hook into the Shell or Mutter for extensions > use, after passing the standard co

Re: 3.6 Feature Proposal: Extension Hook Support and Updates

2012-04-24 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 03:54 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > (In a way, I like thinking of some extensions as the correct answer to, > "but we don't want two code paths and a preference".  It helps keep > everyone responsible for