Argos Lets You Create GNOME Shell Extensions From Scripts W BitBar Plugin Support
Argos Lets You Create GNOME Shell Extensions From Scripts W BitBar Plugin Support Argos is a tool inspired by the BitBar app for Mac, which makes it easy to create your own GNOME Shell extensions, using information provided via scripts. Being a GNOME Shell extension itself, Argos adds a button with a dropdown on the GNOME Shell top panel. This button can display or expose functionality provided by a script, be it Bash, Python, Ruby, and so on (remember to make it executable or else Argos wont use it). Heres Argos in action (gif via Argos GitHub page): Basically, the extension turns an executables standard output into information thats displayed by Argos on the GNOME Shell top panel and its dropdown menu. A new button is added for each executable file placed in the Argos configuration directory ( ~/.config/argos/ ). For example, you can use Argos to display weather, ping, stocks or network download speed on the GNOME Shell Top Panel, while providing advanced information in its dropdown...