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Gnome-shell extensions recover a lot of the functionality that was removed from the defaults. Eg, - For a taskbar: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/584/t

• digi_owl 10y ago
  I would not rely on extensions for fixing the mistakes of the Gnome UX wankers, as given half a chance they would scuttle the whole extension system once and for all.
• rstuart4133 10y ago
  > For a taskbar Thanks, my google foo failed me. So it was there all along. If they've provided some way for me to say what a window's size and position should be rather than having their "everything shall be maximised" shoved down my throat it's worth trying again. When I use Gnome3 now I am struck by how well everything works, albeit for their definition of works. Random things tend to break under other WM's from time to time which is irritating. From what I can tell this is because they depend on gnome's applets to fill in the bits they don't have time to do, but gnome is a moving target. Random breakage is probably going to get worse as the move to Wayland accelerates. Sigh. We do live in interesting times.