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path name with colon causes problems with gsettings and GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
this extension uses a : (colon) character in its directory name in ~/.local/gnome-shell/extensions, namely paperwm@hedning:matrix.org, which causes problems when using GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=... and the gsettings command line tool. the : is interpreted as a path separator.
this means gsettings cannot be used to configure this extension, as suggested in the readme.
since this is only the extension (out of quite a few on my system) using a non-standard character, i suggest to adhere to the established practices and conventions for gnome extensions, and use an identifier and directory name that do not cause problems.
Right, that's a good point, the directory won't work in at least XDG_DATA_DIR which is colon separated. Now I'm fairly certain GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR isn't colon separated, it's only meant to be used by a single directory, as the suggested dconf-editor hack in the readme works.
As an aside you can set things without a schema too (at least with dconf).
Will have a think about changing the id, and how a smooth upgrade can be handled.
Right, never noticed as I've only really used dconf-editor together with GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR, and looking at the code it does some manual handling were it treats it as a single directory. So that's actually a bug in dconf-editor :p
this popped up again in https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM/issues/376#issuecomment-815561175
the best would be to just ‘get with the program’ :wink: and use the same naming conventions as pretty much all other gnome extensions. without a colon, that is.
To avoid future (potential) issues with this - yeah, I think we should change the id/name to [email protected]?
Will create a PR for this.
