GNOME Shell integration for Valent

Valent is an implementation of the KDE Connect protocol, built on GNOME platform libraries.

This GNOME Shell extension helps Valent integrate with the GNOME desktop. The bundled Python plugin is used by Valent to communicate with the extension.

The only requirements for building the project are meson, gettext and zip.

The helper script build-aux/misc/ego.sh will build a user extension that can be installed with gnome-extensions:

./build-aux/misc/ego.sh
gnome-extensions install --force [email protected]

To build and install as a system extension, run meson with the appropriate arguments for your distribution:

meson setup --prefix=/usr _build
meson install -C _build

If Valent is running in a sandbox, it will need your permission to talk to org.gnome.Shell on the session bus and access the filesystem at XDG_DATA_HOME/valent/plugins/gnome-shell.

Flatpak users can grant these permissions using Flatseal or with the flatpak override command:

flatpak override --user \
                 --filesystem=xdg-data/valent/plugins/gnome-shell \
                 --talk-name=org.gnome.Shell \
                 ca.andyholmes.Valent

This project is in an early stage of development, with no stable releases. For those interested in trying out GNOME Shell integration for Valent, there are nightly builds available as an extension ZIP.

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