A Simple Hamster shell extension for Gnome 3.

Frederic Guilbault (@border0464111) agreed to step up to the challenge and will take over responsibility of the Hamster-Shell-Extension as new maintainer. Thank you Frederic!

Because Hamster-Shell-Extension is just a frontend to the hamster dbus service the presence of hamster-time-tracker is required. You can verify that the relevant dbus services are up and running by issuing ps aux | grep hamster which should bring up hamster-service and hamster-windows-service.

The extension is available on the central extension repository.

Current compatible Gnome shell version: 3.24 For previous shell versions check releases.

As hamster-shell-extension is mainly simple JS there is not much of a development setup needed if you just want to get hacking right away. We do however provide a few convenience functionalities that make documenting and releasing the extension easier. For those purposes some additional python packages are required. The easiest and cleanest way to go about this is to create a new virtual environment and activate it:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Now you are all setup to run make develop and related make targets without changing you main environment.

Clone the repository:

git clone [email protected]:projecthamster/hamster-shell-extension.git

Make sure you are on the development branch:

git checkout develop

Build a fresh distribution package:

make dist

This will create a distributable archive. You can now use the tweaktool (at the bottom of the extensions tab) to install and activate the new zip file located in the dist directory.

Alternatively you just can unpack the tar archive to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/. As a result, a directory named [email protected] should be there now.

After that you can enable the extension and change the preferences using Tweak Tool, or on https://extensions.gnome.org/local/