Use Avahi to discover lights? about gnome-shell-extension-elgato-light-control HOT 6 OPEN

Uh, boy - that's quite a lot of code.
I will dig into it if I got some time :)

Thanks a lot for the input!

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Hi Alex,
Really hope you have a chance to integrate this. Would love to see your extension on extension.gnome.org and be something we can advocate for as the best solution for dealing with Elgato lights on Fedora as part of our new initiative - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/LiveStreamingCompatInitiative (also hope GNOME 41 support is coming soon :)

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@cschalle, using Avahi is not necessary to publish this project on extension.gnome.org, as GSConnect uses the same approach (mdns-js): https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

Unfortunately, I am working on a bigger side project, so I don't have much time left.
Feel free to add version 41 and test it: bef9eed

It might be working out of the box - not sure.

Edit: I see - Vte is not available for gnome GTK4: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/12

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Hi Alex, ah I didn't realize that e.g.o allows extensions with external dependencies, that said it is still a bit clunky as you can't just install the extension and go which would be a nicer experience. I guess we could work around this by packaging the extension as a RPM and have the RPM automatically pull in required dependencies, but in general I am not a huge fan of packaging extensions as RPMS and also it is a distro specific fix.

I tried running it, but as I expected it will not run under 41 due to the switch to GTK4, so beyond lacking VTE you also get an error from prefs.js due to trying to load GTK3

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@cschalle, I started working on the new version yesterday. I wasn't aware that Vte is not ready yet. I am using the approach of @owtaylor and it seems to be working fine. So in the next version will be without extra dependencies.

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Great! If you need a tester feel free to ping me, got a lamp here in front of me.

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