sanduhrs / gnome-shell-extensions

extensions to gnome-shell, packaged for Arch Linux

Gnome Shell Extension Packages for AUR

This repository collects packages for extensions to the GNOME Shell to globally install them via Arch Linux's User Repository. They are all built and installed in a similar way, so collecting them here eases maintenance as code fragments can be unified and shared among them.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. If you want to use the templates to package other extensions, feel free to fork this repository and add them. Pull requests are much appreciated.

Simple version updates are only checked in on important upstream changes. Please leave all templates unexpanded (as template input instead of template begin and template and) to avoid cluttered and redundant code. To ease your work, you may use makepkg-expanded, which can build and distribute the packages without expanding their templates.

The makepkg-template for git packages are needed to expand all the templates used herein. Install them globally or copy them into the makepkg-templates directory after cloning.

Organization

• makepkg-templates contains code snippets needed in many of the extensions. See the README there for a more detailed description.

• gschemas.install is the install script utilized by all extensions that install glib schemas. The corresponding template automatically adds it, but as a PKGBUILD can not pull in something from outside its own directory, so it also has to be linked into the package directory. It compiles glib-2.0 schemas installed with the extension, which normally are used to store its configuration, and tells the user how to activate it.

• All PKGBUILDs not utilizing gschemas.install should use notice.install instead. It reminds the user to restart the shell for the extension installation to have an effect.

• A .gitignore file excludes all intermediate products, packages and source aurballs created when building packages and preparing them for upload to the AUR.

• README.md is the document you are reading right now.

• all other directories package one extension each.

Apart from expanding the templates, this repository should exactly mirror the state of the packages in the AUR.