GNOME2 function comes to GNOME3, with a third party extension package

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:52 +0000, Luke Kuhn wrote:
> I'm still playing with GNOME3 UI options, and just found another one, the "frippery" extensions for gnome-shell.  Since gnome-shell is written largely in Javascript, a good Javascript programmer can make quite a few customizations of it. This package includes six changes, of which I am using five in gnome-shell. They are written explicitly to bring GNOME2 functionality to GNOME3, and by the way are visually stunning-especially the traditional GNOME menu themed in the GNOME3 transparent smoke. This package was enough to make me switch from Unity to Gnome-shell with these extensions added.
> The pertinant extensions, from the author's website are listed below:
> "Move the clock: Move the clock from the centre of the panel towards the right. This isn't a very significant change, but it was the first extension I wrote. One minor annoyance is that the width of the clock changes with the time so the indicator icons move about a little.Favourites in panelPlace a launcher for each favourite application in the panel. It isn't possible to manage the list from the panel: instead you can add, remove or move favourite applications in the dash and the panel display will update to match."
> "Applications menu in panel: Replace the Activities button in the panel with an Applications menu. The menu is implemented using facilities supplied by the shell so it doesn't behave exactly like a normal menu."
> "Shut Down menu: Replace the Suspend item in the status menu with Shut Down. The dialog that this invokes includes all available shutdown options: suspend, hibernate, restart and power off.
> An a really big one:
> "Bottom panel Add a bottom panel, including a window list, workspace switcher and message tray button. Because the workspace switcher is arranged horizontally the keybindings for changing workspace have been altered to ctrl-alt-left/right. The message tray button shows and hides the message tray, as the hot corner is hidden by the panel. Right clicking on the workspace switcher invokes a dialog to set the number of workspaces."
> 
> I am not using the "disable dynamic workspaces" extension, as dynamic workspaces, always one more than in use, are reliable on my systems.
> Here's the author's website:
> http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html
> 
> Here's the package:
> 
> http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/gnome-shell-frippery-0.2.0.tgz
> I now plan to download some Javascript tutorials, in hopes of being able to replace the "applications" text in the upper right corner menu with an Ubuntustudio button, still triggering the new-old menu system.

Somebody wrote that GNOME3 occupies 1GB RAM. Could you please run top
and verify/falsify this statement?

Thank you in advance!

Ralf