[Workrave-user] GNOME Shell extension not working

[James J Ramsey]

I just installed Workrave via the PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, but when I try to
enable it via the Tweak Tool, I see a triangle icon with an exclamation
point, and the tooltip for that icon reads "Error loading extension". Also,
if that extension is installed, GNOME takes significantly longer to load,
as if it's hanging on something. No Workrave applet appear in the top GNOME
"menu" bar.

Oddly enough, this PPA worked fine on my laptop's installation of Ubuntu
14.04. Not sure what broke.

[James J Ramsey]

I just installed Workrave via the PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, but when I try to enable it via the Tweak Tool, I see a triangle icon with an exclamation point, and the tooltip for that icon reads "Error loading extension". Also, if that extension is installed, GNOME takes significantly longer to load, as if it's hanging on something. No Workrave applet appear in the top GNOME "menu" bar.
Oddly enough, this PPA worked fine on my laptop's installation of Ubuntu 14.04. Not sure what broke.

I found a solution. I downloaded the extensions.js from Github here:
https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/blob/29b2b7afd692b18060fbe54a3e8b88f8cbf7ecd6/frontend/applets/gnome-shell/src/extension.js

Then I replaced the "extensions.js" installed from the Workrave Ubuntu
PPA with the one from Github. Seems to work nicely, now.

[Rob Caelers]

Hi,

Post by James J Ramsey

Oddly enough, this PPA worked fine on my laptop's installation of Ubuntu 14.04. Not sure what broke.

https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/blob/29b2b7afd692b18060fbe54a3e8b88f8cbf7ecd6/frontend/applets/gnome-shell/src/extension.js
Then I replaced the "extensions.js" installed from the Workrave Ubuntu
PPA with the one from Github. Seems to work nicely, now.

I have updated the Workrave PPA to include the Gnome Shell fix.
So I expect Workrave will work out-of-the-box now.

Kind regards,
Rob