Hi,
new to the forum and new to tumbleweed which works fine for me, indeed. Just curious: Is there a way to get a classic gnome panel like in ubuntu or centos? And caffeine in the top taskbar rather than hidden inside the gnome panel?
The gnome extension “Bring out Submenu Of Power Button” helped already to straighten things out. But ideally I’d prefer a plain vertical list of item to click on.
Thanks and best regards
@smoothtux Hi, no extensions necessary if you switch to classic mode? Or can always fire up the Extensions tool and turn on items.
I use AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension to add panel icons (like caffeine). https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/
openSUSE follows upstream so it’s really up to extensions if available…
Thanks for the quick reply, @malcolmlewis!
Seems I am out of luck with Gnome Classic. If I choose Gnome Classic at login, the panel in the top right corner looks still the same with the table of these rounded fields of elements:
But (many?) other things I am fond of like starting programs by typing the start/super key seems not to work. I do like the actual GNOME desktop. So I will stick with it. … it’s just the top right corner panel …
The Appindicator-Support-extension seems not to affect caffeine. I am looking for caffeine in the taskbar itself like the clipboard indicator. As of now, the Caffeine-App is only available (clickable) through the panel.
I keep on searching.
Thanks again and best regards.
This is called Quick Settings and is implemented by GNOME Shell. Briefly looking around, there is quick settings tweaker extenstion, you may check what it is capable of.
But it was quite prominent change in GNOME 43 so it is quite unlikely there will be native support for changing it. One would need to forward port quick settings from GNOME 42.
Which Ubuntu version are you talking about? Looking at screenshots of Lunar (which comes with GNOME 44) it has exactly the same upstream Quick Settings without any tweaks. Of course LTS which has GNOME 42 has older look and feel, but so does Leap …
Thanks for pointing this out, arvidjaar!
The Ubuntu is 22.04LTS, as you correctly guessed.
Coming from CentOS, I installed Opensuse Leap on server type machines and realized that many Apps in “Software” were originally available on tumbleweed only. Since this here is for my private home PC, I went for tumbleweed to benefit from this. Appears I have to go with the times then.
It is just a bit sad. I consider GNOME dead serious software. The look of a pre-school toy store to me is just inappropriate. But maybe I am too old. And I am not in the position to get into GNOME to port things myself.
As I said, appears I have to go with the times.
Thanks again for the clarification.
Best regard,
How to “forward port”? Is there a guide somewhere to show how to do that? Some Wiki, or?
You get the code from an older version and rewrite it so it runs with a newer version. May be it even does not need to be rewritten, just the newer code replaced with the older code.
Hmmm, thanks, Andrei. But, I wasn’t actually asking for you to say the same thing over again using different words.
Instead, for the benefit of myself, the OP, and anyone else who sees this thread, and who know nothing about porting, I was hoping to get something more along the lines of:
To backport or forward port something, you need to use (I suspect OBS). And here (appropriate link to a Wiki or something) is a guide to help you begin learning how to do it.
If you can do something like that, it would benefit us all. Heck, someone who decides to give it a shot could well find it addictive and wind up being a Contributing Programmer for our beloved openSUSE Project.
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