Settings no longer exposes a slider for the keyboard brightness,
leaving keyboard shortcuts as the only way of adjusting it.
This is good enough in most cases, because devices with keyboard
backlight usually include corresponding keys on their keyboard.
However for devices without those keys, it would be good for the
settings to be exposed somewhere again. Quick settings seems like
a more appropriate place than "proper" Settings, since it gives
quick access that doesn't require a major focus change.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6765
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2820>
Extensions must now export a class with a fillPreferencesWindow()
method in their prefs. That is less convenient for extensions
with simple preferences than the old buildPrefsWidget() hook, as
they must wrap their widget in page/group widgets.
Address this by adding a default fillPreferencesWindow() implementation
that calls a getPreferencesWidget() method and wraps it as necessary.
This is flexible enough to support different cases fairly conveniently,
from simple single-widget prefs over tweaking the window to complex
multi-page prefs:
```js
class SimplePreferences extends ExtensionPreferences {
getPreferencesWidget() {
return new SimplePrefsWidget();
}
}
class TinkerPreferences extends ExtensionPreferences {
getPreferencesWidget() {
return new SimplePrefsWidget();
}
fillPreferencesWindow(window) {
super.fillPreferencesWindow(window);
window.set_default_size(123, 456);
}
}
class FullPreferences extends ExtensionPreferences {
fillPreferencesWindow(window) {
const page1 = new GeneralPage();
window.add(page1);
const page2 = new FoobarPage();
window.add(page2);
}
}
```
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
Use the new defineTranslationFunctions() method from the previous
commit to create gettext functions for the module, instead of
re-exporting from the shared module.
It is now up to extension developers to use the more effective
```js
import {Extension} from 'etensions/extension.js';
const {gettext: _} =
Extension.defineTranslationFunctions(import.meta.url);
```
or the more convenient
```js
import {Extension, gettext} from 'extensions/extension.js';
const _ = gettext;
```
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
The method can be used to define a set of gettext functions that
call the corresponding method of an extension.
Those functions are very similar to the gettext functions we are
exporting, except that:
- looking up the extension is delegated to the
Extension/Preferences class
- it is possible to avoid examining the stack
when called with `import.meta.url`
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
With convenience API like getSettings() now being provided by
the ExtensionObject subclass, extensions will need to access
their entry point more often.
Having to pass a pointer through the hierarchy can be annoying,
so add a static method that allows them to look it up:
```js
const ext = Extension.lookupByURL(import.meta.url);
this._settings = ext.getSettings();
```
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
The Extension/Preferences classes are where we will focus for
future extension convenience API, so developers should be
encouraged to use them as entry points.
Adjust the existing templates to do that.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
Extensions now must export a class that conforms to a particular
interface both for the actual extension as well as for prefs:
enable()/disable() methods for the former, fillPreferencesWindow()
for the latter.
This is quite similar to the previous method-based entry points,
but it also gives us a more structured way of providing convenience
API in form of base classes.
Do that in form of Extension and ExtensionPreferences classes on
top of a common ExtensionBase base class.
getSettings(), initTranslations() and the gettext wrappers are
now methods of the common base, while openPreferences() moves
to the Extension class.
Based on an original suggestion from Evan Welsh.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
Extensions often need to set up additional resources from their
directory, like settings, translations or image assets.
So far extensions have used getCurrentExtension() to access the
shell's internal extension object which contains path and dir
properties. That's far from ideal, first because it requires
generating a stack to figure out the current extension, and
second because the internal object also contains state that
extensions shouldn't meddle with.
Just include those properties in the metadata we pass to the
extension constructor.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2838>
Pipewire allows us to easily track whether any cameras are in used by
checking the state of camera nodes. Add a simple camera monitor to the
shell, allowing us to show e.g. a status indicator.
Naturally the monitor is limited to apps using Pipewire for camera
access and thus subject to the same chicken-egg problem like the camera
portal - it could confuse users that apps may use the camera without
being noticed by the monitor. The hope and assumption here is that a
better shell integration might speed up adoption of the new camera APIs
Pipewire 0.3.49 is required for refcounted `pw_init()`/`pw_deinit()`.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2840>
Use the new privacy indicator class for the input one and move it next
to the other privacy indicators.
While on it move all privacy indicators to the front, following the
system-status-indicators mockup.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2840>
The Config variable that was removed in the previous commit was
actually wrong (PACKAGE_VERSION vs. GETTEXT_VERSION), so the
substituation didn't work.
Meson warns about this, let's make these warnings fatal to catch
similar issues during CI.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2844>
Ever since the mutter image started to set up a non-root user for
running tests, the toolbox image built on top of it has been broken.
The issue has now been addressed, so update the image to pull in
the fix.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2850>
We unified most code paths earlier, but the common code will still
import Main locally if no extension manager was injected before.
Now that the old extensionUtils was split between extension and
preferences, each of those modules can simply import the manager
from its corresponding environment, and then inject it into the
shared module.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2837>
For the time being this mostly means re-exporting functions
from the shared module. However openPrefs() is now only
available to extensions, and we stop exporting both
getCurrentExtension() and setExtensionManager() to either
extensions or prefs.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2837>
We got rid of all uses of extension utils code in the gnome-shell
process itself, and everything that is now using it - including
extensions - is already loaded as module.
We can therefore quickly move the file to ESM, which will help
a bit with upcoming changes.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2837>
ExtensionUtils was originally used for shared functions between
the extension system and the (old) prefs-tool, but then gained
useful API meant for extensions themselves.
It's a bit weird to mix the two, so split out the extension convenience
API into a separate module.
We will soon split up the module further, and add specific "flavors"
for extensions and preferences, with the current code providing a
shared base for both.
That should explain both the new location and the odd module name. :-)
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2837>
Now that we always have an extension manager object, we can use
the same code path for use from extensions and prefs.
For that, inject the D-Bus service's extensionManager instead
of the current extension.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2832>
ExtensionUtils' getCurrentExtension() method currently either
returns the extension that was injected with setCurrentExtension(),
or imports Main locally to access the extensionManager.
But local imports won't work anymore when we convert to ESM,
and setCurrentExtension() is only an option for prefs.
Instead of diverging the code paths even further, we'll unify
the two cases as much as possible.
As a first step, add a basic extension manager in the Extensions
D-Bus service that exposes the same lookup() API as the "real"
extension manager.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2832>
When looking for a directory name that matches the extension UUID,
we can just as well use GLib's dirname()/basename() functions
instead of wrapping the path in a GFile.
We also know that the original path corresponds to a regular file
and not a directory, so rearrange the loop to avoid a lookup that
is guaranteed to fail.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2832>
We currently use a regular expression to extract the exact file path
from a stack line. That RE is no longer accurate:
- we assume a line number at the end, but at one point the column
number was added as well
- stacks from ES modules use file:// URIs instead of plain paths
Luckily that doesn't matter: We don't want to access any actual
files, so all we need is a path that can be traversed and that
contains the UUID.
We can get that with simple string manipulation, so avoid the regex
overhead.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2832>
gi modules are always loaded (there is no API for "set version without
loading"), so
we need to break dependencies.js into three sections:
- Required
- Compile-time optional
- Runtime optional
Required dependencies are always imported, compile-time optional
dependencies
are loaded if gnome-shell is compiled with support for them, and for
runtime optional dependencies we catch any errors when attempting to
load them.
If runtime optional dependencies fail to load we log a debug-level
message.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2822>
Removes the init() function in favor of executing all environment
changes when the file is imported.
Additionally ports all unit tests using imports.gi.environment.init() to
use the updated module.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2822>
