I don’t run a lot of extensions on Gnome, but this one is a great way to add some customisation to the desktop.
I hate needing to resort to third party extensions for EVERYTHING, but this looks awesome
Why?
I like a good extension ecosystem. For the mothership, GNOME, you can only implement one idea, maybe include a couple ideas but the boss or the group has to decide upon one idea. With extensions, everyone, even a maintainer herself, can write one. You do not have to talk to someone else. You can just do it.
As long as the api is well written, extensions are better than having one big mothership trying to accomplish everything and pleasing everyone. Imagine having an IDE without extensions. You have only the opinionated version of the main dev. With extensions, everyone can put his flavor on top of it without asking.
Edit: don’t ask me why extensions and especially extension manager isn’t included in GNOME itself.
extensions are not supported in gnome. gnome devs do not care in the slightest if they break them whenever.
Yeah that’s my main issue with them too. I like the idea in theory, but in practice I find it tends to create this weird environment where something’s always broken because everything updates on a different schedule and nobody cares if their update breaks anything else.
I use Gnome as my main driver, have for the last 7-ish years, and on and off before that, so I’m no Gnome hater by any means, but I’ve been using Linux since 1996. Part of what I LOVED was absolute control. I used 1990’s themeable Gnome and then VTWM as my primary window manager because you could script EVERY aspect of your experience (I got rid of title bars for example). Modern Gnome meets my daily driver needs best, but I use KDE where I can elsewhere because it’s just fighting against me less for ideological reasons. I get you need a like philosophy for a project like Gnome to not go crazy, but like… I’d honestly be fine if you could reliably have your basic extensions survive updates, but a random set of extensions that make your desktop how you like die for x months (or maybe permanently) with EVERY new version, and yes, eventually an equivalent or better extension will come along, but a lot of why I like open source is NOT having my preferred windowing settings killed by committee whim with updates. I lag behind updating which helps, but it’s no panacea. If the extensions for basic window manager features that should be there like theming and such, it would be a better user experience because you would have things you can rely on not changing per release.
ya i also use gnome and kinda just wish the customizations were built in. but i have to say idk what it is but gnome just seems to feel so much smoother. Like its animations, and app switching experience. I think its way of doing things is perfect for a laptop, and i prefer closer to the typical windows layout for a desktop. On a laptop the screens a bit small so i auto hide the dock, and hide the top bar and just run everything in full screen. If i wanna check the time or access top bar menus i just tap the super key real quick then tap it again when im done. I use pretty few extensions, but i do worry sometimes ill get fucked by an update lol. So far so good tho for me.
Wow, that’s the biggest innovation in GNOME since Paperwm
I usually like to stay extension-free, but this looks pretty cool. I might try it out next time I’m on my PC. Something new.
Even Gnome-Tweaks?
I don’t think Gnome Tweaks is an extension. Just an app that exposes some settings and DCONF options that haven’t been added to the usual settings menu.
But nah, I don’t use that either. Font settings really should be in the normal settings menu, though.
I pretty much change a couple of keybinds, remove a few .rpms and replace them with Flatpaks, and that’s it.
This looks great, just installed it. Now to figure out how to make it looks totally transparent with just the different buttons and shrink it a bit like in the project’s screenshots
In Top Bar Properties, select Type of Bar (Islands) and Height + Margins as needed
Blur my shell is pretty much what I use. I also have a wallpaper extension and knotifiersupport
This extension looks fantastic. Good job guys
I’m new to Gnome, been using XFCE and Budgie for the longest time. Does this or any other extension allow offsetting the location of the date and time? A webcam attached to my monitor mostly blocks it.
I can’t check at the moment, but that sounds like something ‘Simply Perfection’ would be capable of.
It’s essentially an addon specifically for tweaking the appearance of gnome stuff.
Awesome. I’ll see if it’s a good replacement for Dash to Dock. Thanks.
Edit: Nope, but I can use them in tandem.
This looks nice but what license does it use?
Is is plnned to have global menu functionality as well?
