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Disagree. "Dash to Panel", "Gnomesome" and "Topicons redux" extensions have got GNOME back to where I wanted it exactly. They're not extensions that add any app

Disagree. "Dash to Panel", "Gnomesome" and "Topicons redux" extensions have got GNOME back to where I wanted it exactly. They're not extensions that add any appreciable CPU usage, because they're altering shell behaviour, rather than rendering stuff in a tight loop. My favourite tiling WM is awesome, and the majority of the interesting functionality for that is scripted in Lua, which is fast but more of a niche language. However, awesome doesn't support Wayland, and the awesome-clones for Wayland are all early-development and don't work very well for me. GNOME supports wayland, has session management, styles things consistently, has sensible defaults, and thanks to the JS engine and the extensions repo, can do exactly what I want it to do. (Except for those !£$"£$% gigantic title bars which GNOME apps like to stuff navigation things into so you can't really remove, wasting SO much screen estate....)

zozbot123 8y ago
> (Except for those !£$"£$% gigantic title bars which GNOME apps like to stuff navigation things into so you can't really remove, wasting SO much screen estate....) The point of the gigantic titlebars and widgets in GTK3 is to support touchscreens - you can "grab" the big titlebar on a touchscreen and move the window easily, which you wouldn't be able to do with traditional window decorations. Once you're constrained to a bigger titlebar, having widgets in there as well is just sensible. Windows 10 has chosen the alternative of just making the titlebar thicker without stuffing anything in there, which wastes more screen space! (I still think there should be a traditional, mouse-oriented layout for systems which don't support touch-- but guess what, that's quite hard. The default should be touch-friendly.)