Hi,

I used to be a big fan of GNOME the way it got out of my way when I didn’t need it and no icons in the bottom to take up desktop space. But the top bar just seems so… useless. It holds a few useful icons in the right side (and you can get extensions to add more) but other than this, it’s just taking up space. After a trip past Xfce I’m now on KDE with the bar in the top.

Have I missed anything about the top bar in GNOME Desktop?

  • Atahualpa@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    I guess it depends on your use, for me it’s sometimes too small. I use it for

    • workspaces
    • ram + cpu + network speed monitoring
    • clipboard manager icon
    • music controls
    • all background running apps (nextcloud, keepass, …)

    Know that you can make the panel thinner or remove it completely with the extension “Just perfection”. I highly recommend it as it does a ton of useful stuff and is always updated on time with new Gnome versions.

    I had to use my old .ml account because of the Cloudflare outage. Shame on Dessalines, fascist tankie.