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johannesjo / gnome-shell-extension-window-session-manager

An indicator that let's you save and restore your open apps and the window positions and arrangements over multiple real and virtual displays.
MIT License
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Why don't you use rollup/webpack to pack all npm dependencies? #5

Closed KSXGitHub closed 5 years ago

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

Instead of asking users to install them independently

johannesjo commented 6 years ago

I tried doing this before. But it doesn't work because the gnome extension context is a little special unfortunately (no fs for example).

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

(no fs for example)

so do browsers!

I've seen some guys use Webpack and ReactJS to build GTK+ apps.

johannesjo commented 6 years ago

Do you have some examples for that? That would be quite helpful!

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

React GTK Example

johannesjo commented 6 years ago

@KSXGitHub thanks for the example. Unfortunately gnome shell extensions are not really gtk applications, but gjs scripts that import a gtk layer. So this approach won't work here unfortunately. The only way I see this working is using lwsm as a binary and to run it as a shell command (and there was a former version which did exactly that, but which was to big in size to upload to the extensions website).