Shopping Extension for GNOME Shell Announced | Linux Today

Shopping Extension for GNOME Shell Announced

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Marius Nestor
Jan 3, 2013

Called Shopping Search Provider, the extension allows users to search and purchase things from Amazon’s online stores, straight from the overview mode of GNOME Shell. This extension comes as a response to the default Shopping Lens created by Canonical for Ubuntu operating system’s Unity user interface.

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Marius Nestor

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