GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live 204
DrXym writes "GNOME Shell has been criticized for certain shortcomings when compared to GNOME 2.x. Chief amongst them was that 2.x offered panel applets whereas 3.x is seemingly lacking any such functionality. What most people don't know is that GNOME Shell has a rich extension framework similar to Mozilla Firefox add-ons. Now, the official site to install extensions has gone live. So if you yearn for an application menu, or a dock, or a status monitor, then head on over. Extensions can be installed with a few clicks and removed just as easily."
Fixed* in two commands (Score:3, Informative)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions
*Fixed but may break everything else.
Re:And yet... (Score:4, Informative)
Gnome 3 has nasty visual artifacts on Ubuntu 11.10 with my notebook's ATI chip.
I appreciate all Shuttleworth has done for the Linux community, but he's really got to take quality more seriously if he wants to win me back to Ubuntu.
Linux Mint [linuxmint.com] seems to work great with Gnome3 and their own Shell extensions. They used it mostly to restore the missing bits that Gnome3 lost. I found it very stable am quite pleased with it. Its no KDE in terms of richness of functionality and flexibility, but its pretty sweet.
I'm starting to like this LinuxMint distro more and more, especially for casual use.
Re:Dead -- to nerds (Score:3, Informative)
You CAN have both, just bury the option to switch somewhere that only the old power users will find and you're fine.
That's exactly what gnome-tweak-tool and extensions are: buried options for power users. So what's the problem
Re:It's not just GNOME 3. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:And yet... (Score:2, Informative)
You couldn't avoid them if you want multiple desktops with different wall paper.
The stripped out any ability to do that an foisted activities on you.
Like I said, its better now, because the bitch level got so high they made an option that "looks" like the old way, but its still using activities. You really can't avoid activities.
System Settings > Workspace Behaviour > Virtual Desktops, check "Different widgets for each desktop". It doesn't say it, but this also lets you set different wallpapers for each desktop, and doesn't seem to use activities to do it. At least, the activities list doesn't show any additional ones created.
That's admittedly not very obvious, and I only found it by chance, but it seems to be what you want. It wasn't available in the first few KDE4 releases, but it's been possible for a year or two.
Re:Happy Gnome 3 User (Score:4, Informative)
1. Use CTRL+click to open a second copy of an already open application, instead of switching to the currently running instance
2. Press alt+~ to switch between different instances of an open application (eg - multiple terminals) without switching between different apps, like alt+tab
3. To shutdown, click on your username in the top right, then press alt. You'll see at the bottom of the list "Suspend" will change to "Power Off"
I really enjoy being able to launch applications so quickly by just pressing the "Windows" key and beginning to type the application name, then pressing enter. I really feel like Gnome 3 gets out of my way and let's me use my applications.