On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:44:31 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

>> This seems to be a worrying trend. GNOME 2.x had a sea of configuration
>> options. GNOME 3.x has almost *nothing*. In order to change anything,
>> you have to install user-supplied "extensions". (Oh, did I mention?
>> There's no documentation for how to write these extensions. You just
>> have to read the source code. Because that's trivial...) It seems
>> software producers have somehow got the idea that it's OK to produce a
>> product with no configurability, and let a dozen different 3rd parties
>> write a dozen mutually-incompatible "extensions" each of which solves a
>> different 30% of the problem.
> 
> GNOME3 has plenty of configuration options, set using dconf-editor.

Oh, and for creating gnome-shell extensions?

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions

Google with search terms "writing gnome 3 shell extensions".

First hit.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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