arcmenu offers a lot of customization for the start menu. you get many different presets and then can further customize the presets.
but my gnome is already heavily customized by zorin out of the box
Go easy on gnome extentions they sometimes slow down performance and do weird visual bugs
Yeah I'm not gonna install many.
For some reason mpv looks like this when maximised and it's great. Doesn't distract from the movie and you can still see the time and such. Of course the top bar disappears if you go fullscreen.
swipe up with 3 fingers on the touchpad
I use Gnome and have for awhile. It is best used very differently from a windows style DE. If you want to see everything that is open take three fingers and swipe up on the track pad. Glance at activities, and then swipe down again to return to what you were doing. or click on something to switch tasks. I mainly use the bar at the bottom to launch applications I use a lot. It's not something I use to switch tasks.
For organization I'd reccomend using multiple desktops. You can swipe three fingers right to get to a fresh one and open things there then swipe back and forth between them easily. It's a very different experience to something like KDE and isn't for everyone.
As for extensions I'd reccomend getting: Blur My Shell AppINdicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support AlwaysShowTitlesInOverview Coverflow AltTab JustPerfection Lock screen Background Weather O'Clock
These give you a lot of customizaton options and make it look nicer imo.
If you are not a fan of the big gesture focus (it really is more like a mobile OS) then you might think about simply switching to a different DE. It's easy to install one and you can log out and switch over without reinstalling your distro. KDE is much more of a traditional desktop OS and similar to Windows. I personally love the way Gnome is but I get it isn't for everyone.
I had to enhance my experience with extensions. And I usually delay updates because the extensions I use haven't even been updated yet.
There are times I take matter into my own hands and fork some of the extensions I use.
But developing and debugging extensions suck because GJS and LookingGlass (DevTool analogue) can't even keep resources from being nullified between prompts. My guess is that since GJS was programmed in C, they can't afford to do proper Garbage Collection.
So my advice? Just pick something else.
Just pick something else.
I'm not too keen on this. Over the last three months or so I have been mulling over the window management situation because I have been feeling dissatisfied by the current setup. I like Niri a lot. It works great with both mouse and keyboard. I have grown to really dislike the stacking window management of both GNOME and KDE. Unfortunately, setting up something like Niri absolutely sucks even with something like DMS or Noctalia. Like no one knows how to consistently theme gtk and qt apps. But GNOME and KDE take care of that and much more which is more improtant to me. I don't have that many windows open at any point so the pain of stacking window management is not a big deal.
Things are looking a lot more normal now. I will keep experimenting further.
There are for sure extensions for your need, just look trough the shitty extentions webpage.
Dash-to-Dock is probably the best solution for this
I am liking the look of dash to panel a lot more but I will try both.
I use dash to panel. I do recommend it.
actually I didn't mention it only because I wasn't sure it had the same indicators.
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