Premise

Before you do anything, please make sure, that you have the following packages installed:

• libglib2.0-dev
• intltool
• gnome-common

The name of the package may vary from distribution to distributon. The first two packages provide m4-files needed for the generation of the configure script. The files in need are:

• intltool.m4
• gsettings.m4

They should be located somewhere in /usr/share/aclocal.

Installation

If everything is in place, run

./autogen.sh

to generate the configure script. If everything worked well, do:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make

To install the extension to your home directory, run:

make local-install

Or to install it for all users you need administrator rights. Thus you've to use something like sudo or become root via su. Using sudo, simply run:

sudo make install

In case you can't find the applet in gnome-tweak-tool, restart gnome-shell (using Alt +F2, enter: r).

If you wish to translate TeaTime to your language, have a look at the directory po.

A handy zip file can be created using:

make zip   # This is the same you get via http://extensions.gnome.org

Thanks to Thomas Liebetraut for the new build system. Get the latest version from: https://github.com/tommie-lie/gnome-shell-extensions-template

Contribution

Patches are welcome. But please make sure the code you contribute is formated properly. Please run beautify-code.sh before sending pull requests. Therefore, you'll need to install the python tool js-beautify, e.g. via pip install jsbeautifier.