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Comment on Replace GNOME Shell Activities Text String with Icon by marti

marti — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:37:20 +0000

I am using Linux MInt with Gnome Shell, I’ve tweaked GS and I like the way it looks now (I tried Cinnamon, but I preferred to keep using Gnome Shell).

I’ve managed to replace the activities text, with the text LinuxMint by editting panel.js, but I have not been able to replace the text with Linux MInt’s icon, but I have not been able to do it with this extension, and I would be really grateful if you could help me. Thanks.

Comment on GNOME Shell/Cinnamon Extension Preferences Persistence by José X.

José X. — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:58:04 +0000

“As an aside, the GNOME developers always seem to contravene the KISS principle where possible.”

Hi, excuse me for being off topic, but another situation in GNOME that goes completely against the KISS principle is how mimetypes and icons are associated with files. To this day I still can’t get my C files to display specific C icons, and unfortunately I simply can’t find icon themes the provide icons for C files. Now, the reason for this off topic comment: can you (or one of the other readers) point me an icon theme which provides C icons ? Alternatively, would you consider looking into this situation ?

BTW, your articles about GNOME 3 are very good, pity that I didn’t buy into gnome-shell (or even Cinnamon) as I’m a Compiz fanboy (which unfortunately does not appear to be in very good shape in the 0.9 versions).

Comment on Replace GNOME Shell Activities Text String with Icon by fpmurphy

fpmurphy — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:26:19 +0000

In general. GNOME Shell extensions do not work on Cinnamon with being modified.

I do not know why you would want to replace Cinnamon with GNOME Shell on Linux Mint. This is not something that I would do. How did you manage to do it?

Comment on Replace GNOME Shell Activities Text String with Icon by marti

marti — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:09:55 +0000

I have been unable to make this extension working on Linux Mint with gnome shell 3.2 because the text I need to change (as mentioned above) doesn’t exist in the activitiesbuttonicon@fpmurphy.com extension. Have I chosen the wrong extension?, I would be really grateful if you could tell what I need to change in this extension to get this working.

Thanks.

Comment on Dual Menus for a GNOME Shell 3.2 Button by fpmurphy

fpmurphy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:40:16 +0000

The commoditization of operating systems such Linux has been occurring for a number of years and is accelerating. The operating system is no longer an important part of a total solution. For Linux distributions, the message is clear; it no longer really matters whether it is Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE Linux, etc. What matters is the user interface and the applications.

A new platform is emerging – the web-based operating system. According to Mozilla:

A truly Web-based OS for mobile phones and tablets would enable the ultimate in user choice and developer opportunity, both from a technology and an ecosystem point of view. Boot to Gecko is a project to build a OS that runs HTML5, JavaScript and CSS directly on device hardware without the need for an intermediate OS layer. The system will include a rich user experience, new APIs that expose the power of modern mobile phones through simple JavaScript interfaces; a privilege model to safely and consistently deliver these capabilities to websites and apps with the user in control. Boot to Gecko leverages BrowserID, the Open Web app ecosystem and an identity and apps model that puts users and developers in control.

This platform is going to decimate the current personal computing platforms as we know them. The movers and shakers within the Linux ecosystem understand this even if the ordinary end user or developer does not.

As a result, a lot more importance is being placed on the desktop environment running on top of a given Linux distribution than the distribution itself. Hence Unity, GNOME Shell, Cinnamon and so on. Personally, I suspect JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3+ are going to be the development tools of choice for the platform of the future. Hence my interest in GNOME Shell, Cinnamon, Enyo and the like.

Comment on Dual Menus for a GNOME Shell 3.2 Button by Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:33:07 +0000

Just curious why do you put effort into these extensions when you have stated that you disagree with the design and execution philosophy of the GNOME Shell Team? Do you feel in spite of these disagreements that GNOME still represents the best desktop for you? You’ve done great work just curious.

Comment on GNOME 3.0 and 3.1 Shell Extensions by Vidyu

Vidyu — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:45:22 +0000

Yes that is what I want to do. When I with mouse to the right side of the screen, the message tray must show and it must show vertical. I don`t want to do it for me, but just to give me a hint how this can be done, if it is possible. Thanks Again.

Comment on More GNOME Shell Customization by TechLW

TechLW — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:57:57 +0000

Really nice,
very cool sharing.

Comment on Customizing the GNOME Shell by Alfonso

Alfonso — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:08:07 +0000

Thank you very much, for all your posts, they are very useful and informative.
If you allow me, I want to add my two cents: I had the same “problem” that Philou had… pasted your code and nothing happened even after logout/login.
Listing the properties with “gconftool-2 –all-entries /desktop/gnome/shell/windows” two items will be shown:
buttom_layout = :minimize,maximize,close
button_layout = :close
i.e. the right one, and the one with the typo.

So if you write any string it will be added to the properties despite of the fact it is a real property or not (I hadn’t imagine it).

Regards,
Alfonso.

Comment on Fedora 16 GPT, GRUB2 and BIOS Boot Partition by Ben

Ben — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:44 +0000

Either way, just another boot partition. And smaller, to boot. :D

Thanks for the incredibly detailed post.