New GNOME Shell Extensions That Provide A GNOME2-Like User Experience

arriagga · 2011-05-17 11:45:56

Ron Yorston has created some pretty cool GNOME Shell extensions that "provide a user experience more akin to that of GNOME 2". Using these extensions you can move the clock next to your username, get an old-style menu, disable dynamic workspaces and place the favourites on the top panel.

you can get more info here:
at webupd8.org and on his homepage

I also made a package: gnome-shell-frippery

here's a screenshot:

Aventinus · 2011-05-17 12:43:26

Just tried it! Works great!

I have one question though. I love the application menu (Ah, brings back memories) but I don't want the featured apps to show on the upper bar because I use another extensions which shows the apps on the right side of the screen. Is there a way to disable the icons on the upper bar?

Thanks in advance and thanks for adopting this package!

lucke · 2011-05-17 12:56:54

You could just "rm -r /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Panel_Favorites@rmy.pobox.com/".

Aventinus · 2011-05-17 15:07:43

lucke wrote:

You could just "rm -r /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Panel_Favorites@rmy.pobox.com/".

Awesome! Works great! Thank you!

Aventinus · 2011-05-17 15:47:16

Now the only thing missing from Shell is an extension that makes tray always visible or moves the tray on the upper bar. When that comes, GNOME Shell will be perfect!

rasat · 2011-05-17 19:50:08

I like the "panel favourites" but prefer to keep the icons at the right side, how?

lucke · 2011-05-17 20:00:47

Which icons?

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rasat · 2011-05-17 21:23:24

Icons displayed in "Panel_Favourites" extension:

lucke · 2011-05-17 21:39:22

Perhaps editing /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Panel_Favorites@rmy.pobox.com/extension.js and changing the leftBox to rightBox in the second to last line would do it for you?

smartboyathome · 2011-05-19 01:18:18

I forked the panel launcher, combining portions of it with the official dock extension to create a prototype "panel dock". It actually works, but I need to work on the interface more since its hard to tell the difference between program states, and some parts are not needed. Get it here: https://github.com/smartboyathome/Gnome-Shell

lucke · 2011-05-19 12:18:17

Just what I thought of, smartboyathome. The most obvious thing about it is, though, that icons don't fit the panel.

smartboyathome · 2011-05-19 12:31:53

lucke wrote:

Just what I thought of, smartboyathome. The most obvious thing about it is, though, that icons don't fit the panel.

Depends on how many apps you have open and how much you optimize the panel space. I am planning to do a few more tweaks (ie, hiding that useless, for me at least, universal access button) as well as add a few more features to this to make gnome-shell more usable for me.

lucke · 2011-05-19 12:53:35

They don't fit the panel vertically, i.e. they stretch out of it, on two PCs I tried it on. Looks as if too big icons were used. Panel favourites extension looks okay. Want a screenshot?

smartboyathome · 2011-05-19 13:07:01

Please do send me a screenshot! This is how it looks on my install:

The icons are statically sized to a height of 24 pixels, but that was the size on the Panel Favorites and so I kept it.

EDIT: of course resize up to 1024

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lucke · 2011-05-19 13:31:49

It seems it's the highlighting that causes problems - everything looks okay if no apps are running. You don't seem to have highlighting of running apps in your theme.

Would be nice to be able to middle-click to run apps in a new desktop.

smartboyathome · 2011-05-19 13:38:30

lucke wrote:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2lsi455.png
It seems it's the highlighting that causes problems - everything looks okay if no apps are running. You don't seem to have highlighting of running apps in your theme.
Would be nice to be able to middle-click to run apps in a new desktop.

I didn't even know that was available, certainly never was on my install. If you want the icons smaller, you can change the icon size on line 23 of extension.js.

cb474 · 2011-06-02 23:45:23

For those interested, it sounds like Ron Yorston has more Gnome 2 related extensions coming. I emailed him and he said he's planning an extension (to come out in the next few days) to provide a bottom panel, with workplace switcher and window-list, including the ability to switch between workplaces with the ctrl-alt-arrow key bindings.

If only the workspaces could be put back in a grid pattern and the panels could be moved to the sides of the screens, I think I could live with Gnome 3 (i.e. by getting rid of all the annoying unnecessary UI "innovations"). Ron said these aren't really things he's interested in. I hope perhaps someone else will be, since I'm not a coder at all.

Kubino · 2011-06-05 19:45:41

I download gnote extension from this page: http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/

I edit extension.js from ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gnote@fpmurchy.com to have more tray icons on status bar and not only gnote (which I am not using). So I added Pidgin and Skype to the file. But with Pidgin there is problem, it has icon very top and I would like to have it in center like icon Skype...anyone know how to do this?

rasat · 2011-06-16 15:12:31

Few questions:
1. How to increase the number of workspaces when the "Dynamic Workspaces Extension" is disabled, the default is two spaces?
2. How to name the workspace number 1, 2, 3, etc. with names e.g. "office", "graphics", "media", "network", etc.? I plan to use the "Auto Move Windows Extension" and when loading e.g. Libraoffice goes to "office" workspace, Gimp to "graphics", and so on.

rasat · 2011-06-18 20:53:32

I managed to increase the number of workspaces, right-click and edit, or:
# gconf-editor (apps > metacity > general > num_workspaces)

gconf-editor doesn't give the option to name the "apps > metacity > workspace_names".

Last edited by rasat (2011-06-19 06:54:38)

barzam · 2011-06-18 22:13:49

Looks good!

Also, this is a good example of how great Gnome shell could become as more people start messing around with it.

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