Applications menu for GNOME

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 19:47, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Has anyone else dabbled with it? What have your experiences been like?

Yes, I have it installed.

Context: it's on a spare machine where I have an experimental install
of Ubuntu $LATEST with GNOME. I use it to play with GNOME extensions
to see if I can configure GNOME 3 into something I find usable.

Current attempt involves Dash-to-Panel, Arc Menu, Topicons Plus, Panel
Icons, Pixel Saver and some other things.

Arc Menu is ... OK. It needs tweaking when the panel is on one side of
the screen, it doesn't automatically match the size of the panel, and
with some themes then controls go off the edge of the menu -- this
left me unable to shut down from the desktop.

So, not ideal, but better than nothing.

TBH, though, my conclusion is: no, I can't make GNOME 3 into a desktop
I would want to use. :-(

I am also evaluating Xubuntu, Mint XFCE, Deepin and ZorinOS Lite.

I tried Elementary but my conclusion is that the team trying to copy
the look and feel of Mac OS X do not actually understand how Mac OS X
works.

I tried Budgie but my conclusion is that the team did not adequately
explore whether existing desktops could adequately do what they
wanted.


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