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I don’t want to “but, actually” this, but actually… Gnome does what it does because Gnome is not intended to be the final form of a DE that the user uses. Gnom

I don’t want to “but, actually” this, but actually… Gnome does what it does because Gnome is not intended to be the final form of a DE that the user uses. Gnome is intended to be a DE that distros can make their own by adding their own opinionated choices, extensions and modifications on top. So while you complain about the lack of a vertical taskbar, in actual practice, outside of maybe Fedora users (which is essentially a distro largely designed to be used as a test bed), nearly every other Gnome user does have some form of taskbar because their distro included it, or they did a 1-click install from the Extensions app.

tsimionescu 3y ago
I don't agree. Reading Gnome designers' blogs makes it pretty clear that they strongly believe in these decisions as the best UX. Looking around Gnome reddit there's also plenty of people who like this minimalism and think it's actually superior [2]. That's not to say that the designers are not supportive of the existence of extensions. They clearly do, that's why they make a nice Extensions app in the first place. But they never say "yeah, we made it as barebones as possible to make it easy for extensions". They explain why it's better for users not to have a minimize button on windows [1], or why they've removed the systray to avoid confusion and so on [0]. [0] https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gnome/ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gno... [1] https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/where-did-the-buttons-go/ https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/where-did-the-but... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/11bhxa7/comment/j9ypt9s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/11bhxa7/com...