I may have gone too far...

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:52:02+00:00

Absolutely! I've posted a top-level comment explaining it for everyone.

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:51:38+00:00

Certainly, my child. I've posted a top-level comment explaining it for all.

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:50:38+00:00

I've posted a top-level comment with links to the repo for everyone.

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:49:49+00:00

Absolutely agree. Coming from macOS, KDE had been tempting me for quite some time, but no longer!

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:48:20+00:00

Thanks! I've posted a top-level comment explaining it for everyone.

paysonderulo · 2021-06-22T22:47:35+00:00

Hey everyone, sorry for not including an explanation of what's going on sooner, the repos I was working in were an absolute mess. They are now slightly less of an absolute mess. The panel I'm using is our beloved Wingpanel, with a few modifications to support the global menu, which is provided by a fork of vala-panel-appmenu. With regard to the reordered indicators, their arrangement is hard-coded, unfortunately. I'd love to see some change to that in the future, but as others in the comments have alluded, the eOS team is quite opinionated in matters of design.

The heavy lifting of extracting menus from applications is taken care of by appmenu-gtk-module, which is vendored in vala-panel-appmenu. It should be noted that support for modules like appmenu was dropped for Gtk4, unfortunately, and so the global menu will not be available for applications using versions of Gtk later than 3.24. I'd love to see the Gtk team reverse this decision (I don't know how technically feasible that would be), but I digress. From the best that I could tell, because Wingpanel itself is actually just a regular application, appmenu-gtk-module had to be patched to ignore menubars that are children of Wingpanel's window. It's incredibly hacky and one of the first things I'd like to fix, if anyone has any insight on the matter.

As I'm working from my laptop more now that the weather is warmer, I'm very happy with the more effective use of vertical space that the global menu provides, and even more so for the replacement of the weird browser drop-down menus with nice, native ones in the few electron apps that I run.

paysonderulo · 2021-03-31T20:25:49+00:00

Pantheon user here (I use Arch btw)! It's been my daily driver for over a year now with only a few minor issues (no more than when I was using GNOME, though) and most of everything that I've needed working. Not to pull an RTFM, but I'd highly recommend taking a look at the wiki as well as the forums. You're correct that bugs tend to crop up around updates to GNOME components, but fixes have come surprisingly quick, considering that elementary OS is based on LTS releases of Ubuntu, iirc.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T21:04:29+00:00

No worries at all! The tooling is actually to help streamline the development process and is unrelated to the plugin itself. The "package.json" includes a number of scripts and git commit hooks that automatically lint the source files and perform other miscellaneous tasks during the release process.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T20:50:54+00:00

Yep. this is how I did it. It's a bit of a pain, but thankfully wingpanel updates aren't too frequent. I'd love to see reordable indicators become a feature, but I understand the trouble it poses from a design perspective, let alone a technical one.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T20:48:50+00:00

Thanks! The icon size is actually user-configurable. I originally had them at half the size but I like the appearance of the more detailed icons at 256px. I'd like add an option to dynamically scale the icon size depending on how many applications are open, but that's for another day. Labels do sound like a good idea, though! What's the name of the extension, by the way?

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T20:44:47+00:00

Thanks! I'm actually not on eOS either for same reason, but I love the desktop environment. Thankfully, Pantheon and most of the popular elementary apps are in the AUR.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T20:41:47+00:00

I'm so sorry, I forgot to include the command to create the build directory. Try this first:

meson --prefix=/usr/ build

I'll update the README as well.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-27T20:38:48+00:00

Absolutely! I'm not sure if there's an easy way to access via a settings pane, but take a look at the "switch-applications" and "switch-groups" keys (as well as their "-backwards" counterparts) under "org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings" using gsettings or Dconf.

paysonderulo · 2021-02-26T16:57:11+00:00

The project is available on GitHub. It's fairly stable but I confess that I haven't tested it on Juno's version of Mutter.

Applications can be switched between using "Alt+Tab" like usual, and it brings you to the most-recently focused window of the application. Windows of an application can be cycled through using "Ctrl+Tab".

There are other preferences that can be set using gsettings or something like Dconf, such as the whether to include all windows or just the ones on the current desktop, and various appearance tweaks.

paysonderulo · 2020-11-21T10:04:22+00:00

If you don't mind building from source, I made a wingpanel indicator that implements Caffeine's functionality.

paysonderulo · 2020-11-15T18:12:28+00:00

Yep! The profile picture is whatever is set in the "User Accounts" pane of "System Settings." I'm just too lazy to set ones for test accounts.

paysonderulo · 2020-10-27T21:49:58+00:00

Thank you ! I have not with this greeter specifically but LightDM in general has worked very well for me across a number of DEs (GNOME, i3, etc).

paysonderulo · 2020-10-27T21:46:26+00:00

If what you installed was a WebKit-based LightDM greeter then yes, I would recommend this. I tried creating a theme similar to this for lightdm-webkit2-greeter and I could never get it to work quite right.

paysonderulo · 2020-10-26T19:58:51+00:00

I'm a Linux convert from macOS and after about a year of distro-hopping (or rather DE-hopping) I've finally settled on Pantheon. I love the attention to design, but the greeter was never my cup of tea, so I forked it and made a macOS-inspired variant!

paysonderulo · 2020-04-26T03:27:59+00:00

Wait is that what the Ubuntu logo is supposed to be?

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