Martin Wilck

ACK for all items. Thanks for writing this up. Wrt the commit messages, you are introducing a culture change here. ederag's commit messages used to be terse to the extreme....

good to know that you're still listening :-)

The idea is nice. For people who don't need the full functionality of the GNOME shell extension, this will be a good thing to have. Can its activation be made...

> Considering #470, #493 and #494, this PR should probably be closed. Yes. More importantly, we'd need to clarify if we actually *want* this feature. The way it's currently implemented...

Thanks for the PR. Unfortunately I have to say I'm not convinced. We have the "export" functionality for choosing different output formats. It would be straightforward to add JSON as...

> How would you see this working? The GUI does not currently have any CSV or XML features either, right? And the DBus API actually already supports JSON format for...

> @mwilck my intention was to add JSON/XML/TSV or any other programatic output format to small CLI commands like `current`. > What is the proposed way of doing that? `current`...

Sorry I had no time for hamster lately... so this is on top of #617?

@DirkHoffmann, that's exactly what I did for openSUSE - install under `/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions`. I didn't go into automatic extension enablement, and I don't think I should as a distro maintainer. Enabling/Disabling...

> -- @mwilck if you find the reasoning somewhere, please don't mind that you share it here. I was talking about the reasoning *against* packaging extensions. My "exception" was obtained...