<div dir="auto">What do you use for your tray icons? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 4:40 AM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/9/20 5:58 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> <br>
> A recent thread got me thinking: What does Gnome offer that any old<br>
> environment with a panel (the thing they used to call a "taskbar" in<br>
> win98)? What can you do with Gnome that you can't do with LXDE or xfce?<br>
> <br>
> I'm unable to use Gnome because I init with runit rather than systemd,<br>
> but I'd still like to understand how Gnome makes life easier for people.<br>
> <br>
<br>
I've used Gnome for quite some time on my Fedora setup. I like it<br>
because of its distraction-free design. It gets out of my way and lets<br>
me focus on work, while at the same time looks pretty.<br>
<br>
It has a few major things going for it.<br>
<br>
* Excellent keyboard-only navigation<br>
* All of the major components are well integrated with each other<br>
* Frequently updated (6 month development cycle, with bug fixes between<br>
each major update)<br>
* Several major distros and their corporate sponsors contribute to it<br>
directly (Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, to name a few)<br>
* One of the best DEs for the visually impaired (so I'm told anyway,<br>
that that with a grain of salt)<br>
* It's pretty, especially the most recent versions.<br>
<br>
Its obviously built around GTK applications, but QT-based applications<br>
work just fine. And of course if the terminal is your thing, you can<br>
open a terminal.<br>
<br>
The workflow definitely takes getting used to, especially if you are<br>
used to something more akin to Windows. A few of the default settings<br>
are a bit batty too. It took me a solid month to get used to the<br>
workflow, but that was over a year ago and now I don't even think about it<br>
<br>
The mistake people make with Gnome is that they try to turn it into<br>
something its not with extensions: give it a launch bar a la KDE Plasma,<br>
remove the top bar, that sort of thing. At that point it defeats the<br>
purpose of running Gnome in the first place.<br>
<br>
The only extension that I consider absolutely vital is an extension for<br>
adding tray icons, since some applications require the system tray.<br>
Otherwise I'm content with a pure vanilla experience.<br>
<br>
My 2¢<br>
<br>
-Matt<br>
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