add dbus based gnome control panels search

goodwillcoding commented 5 years ago

hi @daniellandau,

Great extension, thank you for it. This PR adds ability to search gnome panel via same dbus search provider the remoteSearch.js/search.js does in Gnome Shell.

Please let me know what you think of it. Some highlights.

dbus search is synchronous with time out of 800 milliseconds (since app look and caching is too)
Settings items have (Settings) suffix from gnome-control.desktop because otherwise items like "Keyboard" and "WiFi" just look more confusing. To do that I did some small work around classes. There is a pending TODO in modeUtils.js that I'd want your feedback on.

Also I added session.sh and debug.sh that lets one develop application using nested Xephyr server or stand alone wayland gnome-shell instance. The was borrowed from paperwm project.

daniellandau commented 5 years ago

It's getting late on my time zone, but on first glance this looks nice. I'll take a closer look tomorrow.

goodwillcoding commented 5 years ago

@daniellandau there is no rush ... I am still testing if sybchronous approach will work since it blocks. Ideally gnome-control-center should return quickly but I've see few glitches still investigating

daniellandau commented 5 years ago

Could you add attribution to the original source/copyright to the files borrowed from other projects?

goodwillcoding commented 5 years ago

@daniellandau okie so after some more testing it's clear that the synchronous dbus calls are problematic. I am working on async version now, will let you know how it goes soon

daniellandau commented 5 years ago

With gnome 3.34 this branch doesn't work at all.

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add dbus based gnome control panels search #81