Pidgin GNOME 3 Integration Extension not working

[morgue]

Hey guys, I found this extension
http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/04/p...nd-gnome3.html

But haven't been able to get it working.

I copied the files to the mentioned directory
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

I tried setting the file permissions to full

david@aitdes2:~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gnomeshell@pidgin.im$ ls -l
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 david david 14219 2011-04-29 18:31 extension.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 david david   163 2011-04-29 18:31 metadata.json
-rwxrwxrwx 1 david david   177 2011-04-29 18:31 stylesheet.css

No idea what else I could try.

[morgue]

Looks like it's installed in LookingGlass but it does nothing for me yet.

[numkem]

Looks like it's installed in LookingGlass but it does nothing for me yet.

Exact same thing...

[morgue]

Maybe it's something I need to enable so GNOME 3 extensions work? I don't know...

[bmbaker]

try checking your shell version in the metadata.json file of the extension and see if it has the value as your version of gnome-shell

i.e. "shell-version": ["3.0.1"]

[numkem]

try checking your shell version in the metadata.json file of the extension and see if it has the value as your version of gnome-shell

i.e. "shell-version": ["3.0.1"]

In the metadata.json

{"shell-version": ["3.0.0.2"], "uuid": "gnomeshell@pidgin.im", "name": "Pidgin Integration", "description": "Integrate the Shell chat notification with Pidgin IM"}

I'm running the lastest from the ppa :

Package: gnome-shell
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 3924
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0.0.2-0ubuntu1~build2

[morgue]

Same here:
3.0.0.2-0ubuntu1~build2

[numkem]

Same here:
3.0.0.2-0ubuntu1~build2

Figured it out!

From the site you quoted, the last post explains what to do, just not 100% clearly.

What you need to do is to changed version in metadata.json to :

"shell-version": ["3.0"]

And comment out the line 398 of extension.js like this :

//imports.gettext.bindtextdomain('gnome-shell-extensions', metadata.localedir);

And save all those files.

The reason we have to do this is because apparently the version of gnome-shell in the ppa isn't the "real" 3.0.0.2 making it incompatible and so not working.

Once all is done, you can easily restart gnome-shell by doing ALt-F2 and typing "r" (without quotes).

Enjoy!

[mackendw]

A quite useful tool in debugging the Javascript code you add as an extension is lg. Alt-F2 -> lg. Select the errors tab.

[morgue]

Figured it out!

From the site you quoted, the last post explains what to do, just not 100% clearly.

What you need to do is to changed version in metadata.json to :

"shell-version": ["3.0"]

And comment out the line 398 of extension.js like this :

//imports.gettext.bindtextdomain('gnome-shell-extensions', metadata.localedir);

And save all those files.

The reason we have to do this is because apparently the version of gnome-shell in the ppa isn't the "real" 3.0.0.2 making it incompatible and so not working.

Once all is done, you can easily restart gnome-shell by doing ALt-F2 and typing "r" (without quotes).

Enjoy!

Nice, got it working also, thanks.