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Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by barrkel »

p_l wrote: post #12
christophilus wrote: post #10

This looks decent. Tangentially, why do Gnome windows have such big title bars? Is that something you can adjust?

It's because a) GNOME no longer renders title bars b) GTK3 instead treats title bar as combined titlebar + menu space

Gtk3's title bar / hamburger menu / tool bar / modal dialog hybrid thing is a great motivator for avoiding Gtk3 apps. I've been pretty successfully avoiding them since upgrading to Ubuntu 20 and discovering that horrorshow.

I'm having difficulty getting different colours on active vs inactive title bars on regular apps, though. Still working on it occasionally.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by marksbrown »

chabad360 wrote: post #14
square_usual wrote: post #7

Why does this website need javascript to load? Everything in there could fit on a static page with gifs.

The issue of the gifs was actually discussed on discord. IIRC it was because the gifs would be to big in some cases.

That's a poor excuse given that a) mp4 support is pretty good these days and b) CSS already has responsive loading of assets. It's purely that to a man with a JS framework everything looks like a dynamic site. I highly recommend running Noscript to see how much of the Internet is broken because of this kind of nonsense.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by mcny »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #2

Nice!!! This is the kind of thing I visit Hacker News for. I wonder how this compares with the Gnome tiling Add-on from Pop!_OS that is becoming very popular. But this material shell sounds like a much more holistic approach than just adding tiling to Gnome. I'll definitely try this out.

I have not looked into these things too much but I like how gnome keyring unlocks when I login to my fedora machine. After a simple initial setup, all my git commits are automatically signed by my gpg key. I don't even have to think about it. I haven't used this for anything serious but I think alternatives will need to achieve feature parity before I can seriously consider them.

Kind of like how I go back to x as opposed to wayland because obs can't capture screen (last time I checked).

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by hibbelig »

axilmar wrote: post #13

I don't like this at all. Scrolling is a 'no' in serious UI design, and tiling should be an option. The video is too fast to allow any actual evaluation of its offerings. The big buttons in the section 'find your tasks instantaneously' are not necessary. The gnome interface sucks big time and I don't see this as improvement.

Actually, I've used PaperWM for a bit (a Gnome Shell extension), and that one puts windows next to each other and scrolls left and right between them. (Each window is full height but not necessarily full width.) I find that very nice.

For example, I could have a 2/3 window on the left and parts of another 2/3 window on the right, and going from the left to the right window then scrolls 1/3 so that the full right window is visible.

Pretty cool, actually.

I will want to try Material Shell, too.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by alex_duf »

barrkel wrote: post #21
p_l wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because a) GNOME no longer renders title bars b) GTK3 instead treats title bar as combined titlebar + menu space

Gtk3's title bar / hamburger menu / tool bar / modal dialog hybrid thing is a great motivator for avoiding Gtk3 apps. I've been pretty successfully avoiding them since upgrading to Ubuntu 20 and discovering that horrorshow. I'm having difficulty getting different colours on active vs inactive title bars on regular apps, though. Still working on it occasionally.

Why is it a horror show? It never bothered me

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by monkin »

scott31 wrote: post #15
monkin wrote: post #8

Sadly it’s a material design, one of the worst design frameworks out there. And, it is used contrary to its purpose on all possible levels without any understanding of it.

> Sadly it’s a material design, one of the worst shits out there. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yeah... No. There’s no point repeating the same information about it.
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