How I developed my first gnome-shell extension
Recently I installed qpaeq as a system wide mixer on my ubuntu 14.04 machine. Now I want a way to launch it from the status bar, so I began looking for a way to create a simple gnome-extension. Lucky me, the extensions are written in js, unfortunately the documentation is not so good.
A good starting point is this excellent post (a bit outdated, not all scripts presented work).
Let's proceed by steps.
Create a boilerplate project
We can ...