Poll: The future look of Gnome Shell in Linux Mint

[bimsebasse]

Just this, but it's pretty clear: https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE/wiki

[esteban1uy]

Just this, but it's pretty clear: https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE/wiki

Oh... I see.
What I also see is that we are going to have another windows-list extension update in the next few hours...
Prepare to re-apply your tweaks!

[Rehdon]

I would like a top panel, hope that it will be easy in LM 13 to switch from bottom (too Windows-like) to top (where the main items like menus, favorites, notifications etc. were in Gnome 2.x).

Rehdon

[esteban1uy]

I would like a top panel, hope that it will be easy in LM 13 to switch from bottom (too Windows-like) to top (where the main items like menus, favorites, notifications etc. were in Gnome 2.x).

Rehdon

But you can have everything at top just disabling bottom-panel extension!

[cwwgateway]

I agree with the other posts that mint should have one bottom panel. If you look around the forums and through the blog comments, you will find the two panels a major complaint. I think that one panel would further help gnome shell with mgse look like gnome 2. Personally, I find the top panel to be a complete waste of space and to be inconvienient because different buttons are on the top and the bottom.

[craig10x]

I agree with the other posts that mint should have one bottom panel. If you look around the forums and through the blog comments, you will find the two panels a major complaint. I think that one panel would further help gnome shell with mgse look like gnome 2. Personally, I find the top panel to be a complete waste of space and to be inconvienient because different buttons are on the top and the bottom.

I believe Clem is working on that for mint 13 and will also be porting the original mint menu to mgse
For Mint 12 i am temporarily getting around the 2 panel situation by using the neat extension from the gnome 3 website that auto hides the top panel....it works great and restores the top space for me

[cwwgateway]

I believe Clem is working on that for mint 13 and will also be porting the original mint menu to mgse
For Mint 12 i am temporarily getting around the 2 panel situation by using the neat extension from the gnome 3 website that auto hides the top panel....it works great and restores the top space for me

I hope he will port the original mint menu, but as far as I have seen on the mgse wiki, they are going to improve the mgse menu, but I hope that that ends up like the "old" mint menu .
I am currently using the reflection extension, some other extensions/tweaks, and Esteban1uy's tweaks to get 1 panel with everything on it.

[bimsebasse]

Hmm

the two panel thing was probably a necessary evil given the short time in which the Mint team had to create a traditional desktop friendly shell.

Earlier in the thread:

It'll please the majority to know that a single bottom panel setup is in the works for Mint 13 - the two panel thing was probably a necessary evil given the short time in which the Mint team had to create a traditional desktop friendly shell.

Is this a new kind of trolling old people like me don't understand? *feels frightened and insecure and decides to vote for the tough-on-crime party next election*

[esteban1uy]

Is this a new kind of trolling old people like me don't understand? *feels frightened and insecure and decides to vote for the tough-on-crime party next election*

Come on grandpa, don't be so grumpy. The boy was just saving some keystrokes.

[akavir]

I voted something else. I've been using Cairo-dock for about a year now, and it was such a nice surprise to see that in "Lisa" after the download there is an option for "Cairo-Dock w/Gnome w/effects." It works so well, and with no bars my full-screen applications use all the screen realty. This is the only option I may ever need.

[KBD47]

Maybe time for a new poll:
MATE
Gnome Shell
Cinnamon
Dock

[bimsebasse]

Yup, but it's not really up for debate anymore, it will certainly be Cinnamon. Gnome Shell will be an alternative login session, at best. Unless MATE suddenly explodes.

[KBD47]

I'm betting on Cinnamon.