[CentOS] CentOS 7/GNOME 3 customise top panel

Mon Oct 17 12:34:25 UTC 2016
Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com>

On 15/10/16 10:45, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 14/10/2016 alle 14.39 +0200, Toralf Lund ha scritto:
>> I want to add "application launchers", as it will make start-up
>> faster than the standard alternatives.
> Gnome 3 don't like comfortable "personal application launcher" and
> you're happy. It want you use mouse and keyboard to run some standard
> apps. If you want use this DE like all DE, you must install and active
> some extension.
I believe a prominent GNOME developer once talked about the "un-break my 
application" preference in the context of how not to implement 
configurability. And now GNOME has turned into a system where you need 
"un-break my desktop environment" extensions...

>
> Specially do not like Right click in some places and "Add new
> Launcher", this is gone for a long time and I believe dont't come
> back.
But how about adding other stuff, like "system-wide" extensions?

Like I said, it does seem like users of other distributions get some 
kind of configuration options via right-click...

>
> I use this extension to launch my custom application with personal
> setting, like personal shell command and ssh connections:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__extensions.gnome.org_extension_699_connection-2Dmanager_&d=CwIGaQ&c=KV_I7O14pmwRcmAVyJ1eg4Jwb8Y2JAxuL5YgMGHpjcQ&r=Q0oqxzgUp3xCCIiJDwS-RbNDndQ-KZDhj8wwveNoqU4&m=HXlbCk7PjopI0-kEeFEQ10fFk9DLOCe5mv7ERapu0xs&s=ZqgWA58AMPRmwHRBMcIzkQCX-wB_qMTnx6DNIHzkK1Y&e=
>
> For now, with some hack work, but it seems is no longer supported in
> the future, and I'm not a java script expert to maintainer it.
>
> I use Gnome on Fedora from a long time unfortunately, but When this
> extension (connman) will no longer work on a next new version of Gnome,
> I stop using Gnome and shall, with a bit of difficulty, go to another
> DE.

:-(

- T
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