#762511 cinnamon: package further extensions

Package:
src:cinnamon
Source:
cinnamon
Submitter:
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date:
2014-09-23 12:39:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#762511#5
Date:
2014-09-22 23:36:09 UTC
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Hi.

I'd like if there could be a package with further extensions.

For example "Workspace grid (2D) and switcher" (http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/116)
looks like a very promising one, since it gives back most
functionality from the workspace switcher applet, people used
to know from GNOME(classic).

I'm not sure whether the best solution would be a big package like
cinnamon-extensions or so, which contains all non-default extensions
or per extension/applet packages.

Cheers,
Chris.

#762511#10
Date:
2014-09-23 06:25:39 UTC
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Il 23/09/2014 01:36, Christoph Anton Mitterer ha scritto:
cinnamon control center, not need packaging.
For now I think there are many other things to do: fixes and
improvements at existing packages, and probably packaging other nemo
extensions (that is not installable easy and fast from control center)

#762511#15
Date:
2014-09-23 12:34:24 UTC
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Well, all these web plugin installation systems as we know it from
Mozilla, GNOME and Cinnamon are security risks and should IMHO actually
be disabled.

They circumvent the package management system, Debian's security
support, and leave it completely open to upstream which code get's into
Debian and which not.
It makes it even questionable whether such packages are allowed to be in
main.


This is why we also have xul-ext-* packages, with properly packaged
extensions, e.g. for Mozilla.


Cheers,
Chris.