[CentOS] no gnome-applets in C7.2

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2016-03-08, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2016-03-07, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
>>> Weird.  There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2,
>>> gnome-applets being one of them.  Or has it been moved or renamed or
>>> otherwise obscured?
>>>
>>> tia
>>
>> Since gnome-panel and 'flashback' mode have been removed from GNOME 3,
>> gnome-applets is no longer required or available. Much of the
>> functionality of traditional applets is available by means of extensions
>> to gnome-shell. See the various gnome-shell-extension-* packages.
>>
>
> Thanks, Liam.  I checked those out, downloaded a handful of them, and 
> tried some out.  But couldn't get any of the functionality out of them 
> that I was looking for.  E.g., previously (C5.9) there were nice, little 
> applets to:
>
> - show the current weather; click on for forecasts and weather maps;
>
> - selecting to paste buffer from several sets of odd characters and 
> characters and characters from foreign languages;
>
> - icons, clicking on which could fire virtually any executable on the 
> system;
>
> - "drawers", clicking on which popped an entire column of any of the above;
>
> - and probably some other things I'm not remembering.
>
> I'm still not finding any of that in C7.2... it's like this "upgrade" is 
> several steps backwards from the functionality in earlier CentOS 
> version.  Or am I missing something?

No, many before you have similarly bemoaned the changes made during the
transition from GNOME 2 to 3. I suggest you take a look around the
extensions website[1] for extensions which restore the missing
functionality. Use gnome-tweak-tool to install and remove extensions.
They can be a bit hit-and-miss when it comes to compatibility with the
particular version of gnome-shell you are running.

1: https://extensions.gnome.org/

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Liam