Applications menu for GNOME

[Tom H]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:06 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 19:47, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone else dabbled with it?
>> What have your experiences been like?
>
> Yes, I have it installed.
>
> Context: it's on a spare machine where I have an experimental install
> of Ubuntu $LATEST with GNOME. I use it to play with GNOME extensions
> to see if I can configure GNOME 3 into something I find usable.
>
> Current attempt involves Dash-to-Panel, Arc Menu, Topicons Plus,
> Panel Icons, Pixel Saver and some other things.
>
> Arc Menu is ... OK. It needs tweaking when the panel is on one side
> of the screen, it doesn't automatically match the size of the panel,
> and with some themes the controls go off the edge of the menu --
> this left me unable to shut down from the desktop.
>
> So, not ideal, but better than nothing.
>
> TBH, though, my conclusion is: no, I can't make GNOME 3 into a
> desktop I would want to use. :-(

What's missing once you install the extensions above?

Arc seems to give the menu that defines Gnome 2, Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon, ...

I use FLuxbox day-to-day, but I have Gnome installed and log in to it
more or less once a month. I've never liked the Win-like menu; Gnome's
usable for me with the move_clock and hidetopbar extensions installed
and with Plank as an app-launcher.


> I am also evaluating Xubuntu, Mint XFCE, Deepin and ZorinOS Lite.
>
> I tried Elementary but my conclusion is that the team trying to copy
> the look and feel of Mac OS X do not actually understand how Mac OS X
> works.

What does this mean?


> I tried Budgie but my conclusion is that the team did not adequately
> explore whether existing desktops could adequately do what they
> wanted.

I'm going to try it.