Port to Gnomie Shell

[passcod]

Gnome-shell, Gnome3, other-gnome-shell-based-things... I want 'em all

[ghost]

Holy fuck, it's GNOME, not "the gnommies".

Gnome-shell is difficult, because it's JS, and there's no native code support as far as I know (apart from GIR, but that's Gnome libraries >_>). Gnome2 is easier, but I'm sure there's not really anyone who's still using that. It's something to look into, anyway.

[NuckChorris]

Have you ever been to vietgnome, boy?

Anyways, I can port it to GNOME3 assuming two conditions: (1) filesystem access (2) canvas or cairo icon drawing

If either of these is missing, it's basically impossible. However, there will be a GTK3 StatusIcon app (soon) which will provide this (sans basically all size options)

[ghost]

There's no Cairo. Which is butts. Because GNOME3 extensions don't get actual GTK shit n_n

[NuckChorris]

GTK is fuckin' hard, man. I don't blame them. Anyways, there might be Canvas access or some other form of drawing system. Honestly, HTML5 canvas is just a JS clone of Cairo.

EDIT: Fixed the title. Fuckin' Gnommies.

[ghost]

There's St, which is some other drawing thing. I should really read the docs for that.

[NuckChorris]

The fuck is St? Looks like some Widget toolkit. Anyways, it has StDrawingArea which appears to just be Cairo.

[ghost]

Fucking knew I should read the docs. But okay, that makes things easier...

[NuckChorris]

Quite easier. What language does St bind to?
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Aki Jenkinson [email protected]
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Fucking knew I should read the docs. But okay, that makes things easier...

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[ghost]

St is C-bound but using GIR you can call it from in JS. Or something. All the docs are for C, as is the rest of the GNOME suite

[NuckChorris]

That's awful cryptic. I just hope it works.

[ghost]

I'll shove GNOME3 in a container when I get home and actually play with it. See whether I can call out to C libraries or whether I'm doing this entire thing in JS n_n

[ghost]

So, this doesn't look too bad.

[NuckChorris]

If you wanna do this, assign yourself, otherwise I'll add it to my work queue. (JS is one of my areas of expertise, mind you)

[ghost]

I'll leave it to the expert ;)