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Gnome - Extensions - Create an Extension

Distributing an Extension

Extensions are distributed as Zip files with only two required files:

metadata.json
extension.js

Installation of an extension

Extension are installed in one of two places.

For User Extensions,

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/example@blah/

For System Extensions,

/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/example@blah/

Complete Extension Zip File Layout

A more complete, zipped extension usually looks like this:

example@blah.zip
    locale/
        de/
          LC_MESSAGES/
              example.mo
    schemas/
        gschemas.compiled
        org.gnome.shell.extensions.example.gschema.xml
    extension.js
    metadata.json
    prefs.js
    stylesheet.css

NOTE:

The topic of GSettings and the schemas/ directory is explained on the Preferences page.
The topic of Gettext and the locale/ directory is explained on the Translations page

References

http://smasue.github.io/gnome-shell-tw

https://gjs.guide/extensions/overview/anatomy.html#metadata-json-required

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Table of Contents

Gnome - Extensions - Create an Extension

Distributing an Extension

Installation of an extension

Complete Extension Zip File Layout

References