Steve, Have you considered gnome-shell extensions. GNOME Shell Extensions
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GNOME Shell Extensions
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Therein I discovered a collection of "maintained and unmaintained" gnome-shell
extensions geared to extend gnome's regular interface.
Regards
Leslie
Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
From: Steve Schooler <sgschoo...@gmail.com>
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 1:35 PM
Subject: should gnome's user-customization strategy be overhauled
I Apologize if this email is misdirected - I couldn't fathom where else to send
it. Please forward this email to "gnome software administrator's", if
feasible. This is a one-off message, so I have not subscribed to
desktop-devel-list@gnome.org. If you feel it is appropriate, please respond
directly to sgschoo...@gmail.com.
The sole purpose of this email is to ask "gnome software admin's" to CONSIDER
WHETHER IS IT FEASIBLE AND ADVISABLE FOR GNOME TO ADOPT A LONG TERM STRATEGY OF
OVERHAULING IT'S DEVELOPMENT OF USER-CUSTOMIZATION FEATURES.
The customization features offered by gnome have been steadily increasing,
while (critically) gnome (or gnome-3) remains STABLE. My understanding is that
in general, linux-gnome users may customize their desktop in one of three ways:
1. gnome tweak took, as mentioned at
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Tweaks?action=show=Apps%2FGnomeTweakTool.
2. gnome layout manager, as mentioned at
https://www.fossmint.com/gnome-layout-manager-make-gnome-into-unity-mac-windows/.
3. add a different desktop on top of gnome. One example is cinnamon, which is
discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(software).
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Please see my query at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/427785/manually-layout-gnome-to-cinnamon.
I can think of two separate (? mutually exclusive ?) long term strategies that
gnome developers might consider:
a. A variation of the (apparently extremely well documented) approach taken at
https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/. I'm a programmer with moderate
"linux-bash" skills, and I merely want to be able to customize my own desktop.
For my skills and purpose, grappling with GTK+ and GObject feels onerous.
I would prefer a "higher-level-language", with perhaps the NARROWER
capabilities that a user might want. Analogies are assembler -> [cobol, c, or
java] and (within latex) postcript -> pstricks.
Hopefully, this approach would drastically simplify (for example), the end user
coding and customizing their own "bottom-of-the-screen" taskbar from within
gnome.
b. The approach taken by Firefox v. 58. In this browser, specifying a url of
about:config provides a long list of user-customizable parameters. An
analoguous approach in gnome might group the parameters into categories (e.g.
desktop appearance, font sizes, power-mgmt+screensaver+monitor attributes,
...). gnome could accompany this with (for example) a pdf or
website-maintained documentation (i.e. manual) of these attributes, with a
"user's guide" + examples included.
I consider both gnome-tweak-took and gnome-layout-manager excellent SHORT TERM
APPROACHES. Long term, a high-level scripting language or voluminous set of
user controlled attributes would allow (for example) gnome to RE-UNIFY WITH
CINNAMON, WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING GNOME'S STABILITY. If this approach succeeds,
gnome might be "universally accepted" ACROSS LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS.
This approach could reduce "desktop crashes", eliminate redundant enhancements
across different linux desktops, and (perhaps) better entice users away from
microsoft windows.
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