Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

[Bob Andrew <bobandrew planetmail net>]

Le lundi 03 octobre 2016 à 16:04 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 15:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote:
> > I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter
> > way
> > than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what
> > is
> > the interest of extracting resource files through gresource, except
> > maybe not having to download the whole source?
> Not having to download the whole source is basically the only purpose
> of the technique mentioned in those blog posts.
>
> (It also ensures you get the JavaScript or other resources that
> actually correspond to the version you have installed - which is
> hopefully the one that your distribution recommends and has done its
> own QA on - and not some earlier or later version. But if you've
> downloaded the whole source, then you have everything you need for an
> internally-consistent build anyway, whether it matches your
> distribution's recommendation or not.)
>
>     S

I see. My original goal was to modify the appDisplay.js file to change
the number of columns of the application overview. I suppose that
rebuilding the whole gnome-shell package is a bit of an overshot for
that purpose, especially since it would need to be done after every
update. Is there any plan to include a middle way which would allow
users to implement these JavaScript changes without going through
recompiling/rebuilding? Maybe the idea is that this kind of tweaking
should be done exclusively through extensions?