Launcher icon size

[Jonesy]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 22 October 2018 06:03:51 Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 19:46, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> > I was hoping to find a GNOME extension, preferably in the Ubuntu
>> > package repositories, that provides a "start menu"-like facility to
>> > make it easier to migrate friends from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. It
>> > is early days yet and I'm going to play around with gnomenu.
>>
>> FWIW I have been experimenting with GNOME 3 in 1804 in VMs.
>>
>> I found that a whole bunch of GNOME extensions are, as you say,
>> packaged with the distro. So, I attempted to customise GNOME 3 into
>> something I would find vaguely usable, along the lines of this blog
>> post I wrote a little while ago:
>>
>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/57630.html
>>
>> I found several issues:
>>
>> * If you use the packaged versions, then visiting extensions.gnome.org
>> will result in warnings about out-of-date extensions.
>>
>> * If you try to update them, you end up with 2 versions installed at
>> once. This often results in crashes.
>>
>> * I personally can't make a desktop I like with only Ubuntu-packaged
>> extensions.
>>
>> * Mixing and matching packaged extensions and ones from gnome.org
>> results in a system lockup and an unusable desktop
>>
>> Additionally:
>>
>> * You _can_ install VirtualBox guest additions on 18.04 but they do
>> not provide graphics acceleration even on X.org
>>
>> The only setup I have found remotely usable is to make it vaguely
>> Windows-10 like, with Dash-To-Panel:
>>
>> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
>>
>> This replaces a number of other extensions, so you don't need
>> extensions to move the clock, hide the redundant "activities" button,
>> etc.
>>
>> It also seems to work with the to me essential "extend system menu"
>> extension.
>>
>> Also, from experiments, you can replace the GNOME app launcher with a
>> menu on top of Dash To Panel.
>>
>> However, I find the horizontal panel unusable with a widescreen
>> monitor. I want it vertical. D2P doesn't support that.
>>
>> So for me this is not a working setup.
>>
>> Additionally, from previous experiments, I have found that if you
>> customise GNOME 3 with extensions like this, a system upgrade is
>> almost certain to result in a badly broken desktop, probably one where
>> you can't log in at all.
>>
>> This is reproducable on both Ubuntu and Fedora.
>>
>> And since I find the default layout of GNOME 3 unusable, this means
>> that for me, GNOME 3 is unusable. It also means that if I need to
>> switch desktops, I am evaluating whether I wish to stay with Ubuntu at
>> all.
>>
>> Very sad times.
>>
> Liam, please take a look at TDE. Its a fork of KDE at about the 3.5 
> version level, but with hundreds of bugs fixed. I'm running it on 2 of 
> the more powerfull machines here, out of 7. Current version is R14.0.6. 
> Very little is new, but everthing I've tried works. And still under what 
> I'd call active development. If you update at least weekly, 10+ packages 
> are usually updated. I agree, gnome3 is a train wreck, gtk2 was a much 
> better tool, but gladevcp is now unusable, so I'm forced to use the less 
> capable pyvcp for my cnc machine's gui extensions and I've lots of handy 
> video gingerbread on them.  It wastes screen real estate, but otherwise 
> Just Works. Even on a pi-3b that's running my biggest lathe, a 70 yo 
> 11x36 Sheldon. I am even compensating for bed wear.

What he said!  	TDE  	 +1

Jonesy
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