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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 SSLy »

mcny wrote: post #33
pmontra wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally (1.5 years of usage) Gnome 3 doesn't crash.

The trick to not have gnome 3 crash (at least when I was on Ubuntu 18.04?) was to NOT connect it to heavy online accounts like if you have three google accounts all of which are perpetually teetering on the edge of your storage capacity of 15GB (or 17, if you did the security checkup) then the "factories" of Gnome will work themselves to death trying to synchronize everything. But we can't tell people "Just don't con…

>Does anyone even use gnome online services?

I do have two google accounts and one MS enabled in GOA.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by wayneftw »

Can the user merge the workspace panel into the the system panel and move all that to the bottom of the screen instead?

I honestly can't stand global top bars and "system panels" that are nothing more than always-visible launcher menus. They're just a waste of space. IMO Chrome looks ridiculous in the video, with a set of tabs directly underneath the workspace panel tabs.

What I'd really like to see is XFCE with automatic tiling. I can probably script a half-assed version of it myself without too much trouble, but it would be nice to have a full-assed version of that.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by confounded »

ebiester wrote: post #67
phkahler wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing out that it supports floating windows. I use a 55" 4k monitor so I manually lay out my app windows and would hate tiling (only rarely used stuff goes up top and I drag those down when needed). I use and like gnome but there are a few thing I hate about it so I'll give this a try.

Tiling people would create a group up on the top. When you want to bring it down, it's just a keyboard command away. After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.

> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.

Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by sanqui »

This is so close to how I would want my shell to work! For instance, there is a floating mode which can be enabled per-workspace. Big fan of the persistency. I have a few nitpicks, but the author seems active on Discord and work is ongoing. Going to give this an extended ride for sure.

EDIT: For Fedora users, apparently the package is quite outdated and missing some features and fixes. The author is going to make a new release on GitHub and hopefully package maintainers will make an update.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by dashwav »

confounded wrote: post #74
ebiester wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tiling people would create a group up on the top. When you want to bring it down, it's just a keyboard command away. After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.

> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling. Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.

Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) and skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd) together makes a very powerful combination that works extremely well. It's as close to i3 as you can get on MacOS, and outside of a few odd things with 3 monitors I haven't run into any issues.

Yabai is actually the second iteration of tiling windows that koekeishiya has made and it's super well developed.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by _def »

I like the tiling. Unfortunately it breaks my beloved workflow with GNOME 3: I'm using an extension to switch workspaces via scrolling on the top panel, which makes the workspace approach very useful and fast for me.

I also rather would like the left panel at the top since window lists aren't important to me anymore (hot corner for overview is so much faster for me finding the window I am looking for)

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by tkainrad »

I don't see why you would need such a complex system (spatial model) to switch between your apps.

In my opinion, this has been solved perfectly many years ago. I simply use Super+ to launch/switch to my 10 most important applications. Supported out-of-the box by both Windows and Gnome and 100% predictable. Every shortcut invocation will launch exactly the right application.

Re: Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

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Post by shock »

dkersten wrote: post #51
yrro wrote: post #39

I find the app-based window navigation in vanilla GNOME 3 rather frustrating, and try as I might, I just can't get comfortable navigating between what I think of as applications. This is because I have a few applications (Firefox, Terminal) that are really not applications in and of themselves; the applications are really Outlook, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, OpenShift (logged in as cluster admin), OpenShift (logged in a…

I recently switched to Sway because gnomes workspaces annoyed me too much. Let me choose a workspace independently on each monitor please! On i3 I was getting really bad screen tearing, even with conpton/picom otherwise I’d have just used that, but Sway/Wayland has no such problems. Sadly a few things don’t work so well in Wayland. For example, Windows games under Proton work fine on X but not on Wayland/Xwayland (I…

Maybe you would find PaperWM useful. You can move workspaces among different monitors seamlessly.
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