The purpose of this extension is simply to customize the Ubuntu Dock. It does not provide any extra functionality; when opening the settings, it will simply show the settings offered by Ubuntu Dock itself. If Ubuntu Dock is not installed, no settings dialog will be available. Please note that Ubuntu Dock is not available on extensions.gnome.org as an extension. I will do my best to try and keep this up to date with new versions of Ubuntu Dock as they become available.
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This is essentially an empty extension that simply connects to the Ubuntu Dock extension to modify its settings (since prefs.js is not provided...). The prefs.js file is taken from upstream dash-to-dock, with a slight fallback mode in case Ubuntu Dock is not installed.
why not contact Ubuntu team about this?
well, I'm not sure how to proceed here. The Ubuntu team is explicitly against exposing the settings, so I was trying to submit an independent extension. Here is more information on the matter: This commit specifically and purposefully removes the settings: https://github.com/ubuntu/dash-to-dock/commit/b25afafbabb0c6bd7e3155f7ec52cb4baea31ed7 From the blog about Ubuntu 17.10: "We disabled the settings panel and expose some of those settings in GNOME Control Center." Source: https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/18/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-5/ The settings exposed in the Control Center are absolutely minimal.
I am not comfortable with this. Is installing the upstream dock instead of using the ubuntu fork a possibility?
installing dash-to-dock directly is a possibility...... however in that case the user is no longer using "Ubuntu Dock" but something else. new versions of dash to dock t might come with new features, but also new regressions and so on I understand if you are not comfortable with this, I am simply trying to make configuration for Ubuntu Dock easier to find
I think maybe if we add the Ubuntu name to the name of the extension shown here and if you elaborate a bit on the description (describing exactly what it does for which use case), I'd be ok with approving it.
I just updated the name + description. what do you think ?
I'd say that this is okay now. In general this is not different than overwriting any design decision the design team makes for the shell. The only difference is, that it depends on a design decision by Canonical's team and them distributing stuff. But we also have other extensions that depend on installed software. I'm fine with it with the extended desciption but I'd like for mengzhuo to give a second opinion.
@maweki looks good to me.
Thanks @maweki and @mengzhuo for your time. the last message was marked as "waiting for author", but I don't think I need to change anything else, right?
Ubuntu Dock Settings