GNOME Is Making It Easier To Track Running Background Apps

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  • blacknova
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2010
    • 423

    #21
    Originally posted by cooperate View Post

    Except they don’t take focus from windows…
    They kind of do, not on Wayland though.

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    • andyprough
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2012
      • 2457

      #22
      Michael, why did you put a screenshot from your Android phone on a Gnome article?

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      • Monsterovich
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2020
        • 299

        #23
        Originally posted by Myownfriend

        Nobody answer this idiot lol
        Well you know, since GNOME 3 there's a slight doubt.

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        • paolop
          Junior Member
          • Jul 2022
          • 2

          #24
          Simplifies htop, by showing apps rather than just 'processes' ?

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          • AsciiWolf
            Phoronix Member
            • Jul 2009
            • 77

            #25
            Originally posted by Myownfriend

            Monsterovich is one of those people who can only define things based on what they were like when he was younger. If a desktop UI doesn't look like Windows to him than it can't be a desktop UI. New idea don't compute with him. Same thing apparently applies to andyprough.
            Let's hope he won't hear about the upcoming app menu removal*. /s

            * To be honest, I am also not a big fan of the app menu removal. Although I usually like most of the GNOME / modern desktop changes, this is not one of them.
            Last edited by AsciiWolf; 08 February 2023, 07:12 PM.

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            • openminded
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2022
              • 227

              #26
              Weird looking Gnome has become even more weird. Android? Well, Gnome's been quite alike that since v3. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. What's bad is a lack of features compared to mobile platforms, not similar vibes they share. Over time and with extensions put on top of it, Gnome managed to gain a better UX. Still weird though, definitely not my cup of tea.

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              • Monsterovich
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2020
                • 299

                #27
                Originally posted by Myownfriend

                Monsterovich is one of those people who can only define things based on what they were like when he was younger. If a desktop UI doesn't look like Windows to him than it can't be a desktop UI.
                Wow, I'm so old already. In truth, it's not just that touch screens require a separate interface design. In GNOME, the devs throw out features under the excuse of "simplicity". Even Android has those features, for example, desktop icons, and even workspace widgets, which is even cooler than the desktop ones. GNOME is like gathering all the dumbest designers from all the corporations and forever rearranging the beds instead of inventing the design once and building off of it. Remember, GNOME2 was good. Everyone was satisfied.

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                • AsciiWolf
                  Phoronix Member
                  • Jul 2009
                  • 77

                  #28
                  Actually, GNOME 2 was bad and outdated in many ways. I switched to GNOME 3 only a few years ago, but I would not go back.

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                  • Myownfriend
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2021
                    • 1046

                    #29
                    Originally posted by Monsterovich View Post
                    In truth, it's not just that touch screens require a separate interface design.
                    ​​

                    Gnome layout does change on phones and it has a tablet mode.

                    That being said, you're wrong in saying that touch screen's require a separate interface design. Often times the same design considerations that help touch use also help mouse users. Larger touch targets are also quicker for mouse users to click accurately. DPI scaling is useful not only for smaller touch screens but also for high resolution desktop screens.

                    Originally posted by Monsterovich View Post
                    In GNOME, the devs throw out features under the excuse of "simplicity". Even Android has those features, for example, desktop icons, and even workspace widgets, which is even cooler than the desktop ones.


                    Desktop icons are something that I had hidden on Windows for years because they're a sloppy way to organize things and their labels can easily become difficult to read if the wallpaper is too noisy. Using an extension to add them if you want them isn't a huge deal.

                    Android doesn't have desktop icons because Android doesn't really have a desktop. Android devices have home screens where you can pin applications and widgets. There's no folder that represents the home screen because it doesn't store anything.

                    Floating widgets haven't been all that popular on desktops and people that use them don't typically like mixing them with desktop icons. Windows Vista had them as Gadgets and very few people actually made any. They were discontinued in Windows 10. Live tiles were the closest feature to them. Gadgets were brought back in Windows 11 in their own menu just like how MacOS uses them. Still, you can add widgets to Gnome with an extension if you want to.

                    Originally posted by Monsterovich View Post
                    GNOME is like gathering all the dumbest designers from all the corporations and forever rearranging the beds instead of inventing the design once and building off of it.
                    I'd really be curious to see you design a desktop UI lol Even if it was just mockups

                    Originally posted by Monsterovich View Post
                    Remember, GNOME2 was good. Everyone was satisfied.
                    There's no case where everyone is satisfied. I never liked that Gnome 2 had it's UI spread across the top and bottom. When I tried it back in the day when I was primarily using Windows, I didn't like that my applications had less space when fullscreened.

                    Also Gnome officially maintains extensions that add back Gnome 2's Window List, Places Indicator, and Applications Menu and they ship with modern version of Gnome. You can enable them individually with the Extensions app or enable all of them by launch Gnome Classic on the login screen.

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                    • sarmad
                      Senior Member
                      • Jul 2013
                      • 1234

                      #30
                      Originally posted by -MacNuke- View Post
                      They reinvented the tray icon long after dropping support for it.
                      except that the re-invention is worse because you now need an extra click before you can see those background apps.

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