Canonical Joins The GNOME Advisory Board

[totex71]

Gnome has potential to be the perfect desktop for me. I have been using it for a long time now but iv had enough. After so long time since the release of gnome 3 you still can't adjust the top bar size. And i can't even change the title bar size without having to mess around with css files. They removed tray icons so we need separate extensions for every piece of software we want to have a tray icon. I finally see why people are getting frustrated over it. Needing extensions for the most basic features is the most annoying thing ever. Every other desktop have customization by default why can't gnome have it too? seems like such a step backwards to me.

[Darakus]

The large title bars on a small screen can be annoying. However, there is a handy GNOME shell extension called Pixel Saver that addresses this concern. When a window with no title bar decorations is full-screened (for example firefox) the title bar completely vanishes and the close button merges into the menu bar. It's very nice. If it detects a window that does leverage that extra title bar space (for example Builder) then the extension is smart enough to never hide the title bar. I use it on any screen 1080p or smaller.

[Filiprino]

Jumbo title bars.

[M@GOid]

If you have 4K monitor maybe, otherwise having empty title bar, even for full screen window is not OK. Having app menus in the title bar again is super convenient and sleek.
Tried GNOME Shell, too much wasted vertical space and ugly.

That is my main problem with Gnome 3 right now. All the bars are so large. A lot of people are stuck with 1366x768 screens (on cheap laptops). Every vertical line counts man.

[DanL]

helping stear the overall direction

Stear? Like an ox?
(In before tildearrow )

[sabian2008]

If you have 4K monitor maybe, otherwise having empty title bar, even for full screen window is not OK. Having app menus in the title bar again is super convenient and sleek.
Tried GNOME Shell, too much wasted vertical space and ugly.

Have been using Gnome 3 for about 5 years (from 3.04 or something like that).

The only extension I really need in gnome is Hide Top Bar. Using that I got to use the whole screen for windows. Actually it's one of the reasons I ended up loving Gnome over the classic Desktop Environment (like KDE or XFCE) layout, I just have full screen windows and when I want something else it's just a Windows key + some typing away (and the search functionality has improved considerably over the years). As everyone who cares for efficiency knows, keyboard >> mouse.

I can understand it not being appropriate for your workflow, and that's okay. It's the nice thing about having choices.

[SWY1985]

Hopefully, they can push GNOME towards becoming more user friendly - instead of being just different in every regard.

I don't know. After using GNOME for the past year (or so), I feel awkward every time I need to use Windows. GNOME Shell doesn't get in my way, I kind of like their vision of different.

[Drago]

GNOME Shell is quite okay with some customizations. Example Classic extensions, or dash-to-dock or dash-to-panel.

If you have 4K monitor maybe, otherwise having empty title bar, even for full screen window is not OK. Having app menus in the title bar again is super convenient and sleek.
Tried GNOME Shell, too much wasted vertical space and ugly.

[uid313]

Unfortunately not even the recently released Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME 3.26 seem to support colored emojis. 😭

Gosh, revive Unity already. You can use whatever GNOME apps you want, but ditch the GNOME Shell.

GNOME Shell is quite okay with some customizations. Example Classic extensions, or dash-to-dock or dash-to-panel.

[Linuxhippy]

Hopefully, they can push GNOME towards becoming more user friendly - instead of being just different in every regard.