dash-to-panel vs sway

dash-to-panel

An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications. (by home-sweet-gnome)

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sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)

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dash-to-panel		sway
	Project
42	Mentions	613
3,628	Stars	13,850
0.9%	Growth	1.3%
8.7	Activity	9.2
10 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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dash-to-panel

Posts with mentions or reviews of dash-to-panel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-26.

Dash To Panel icons look weird
1 project | /r/pop_os | 11 Apr 2023
Why the default panel UX fails and how to fix it.
1 project | /r/kde | 27 Mar 2023
Hiding the top-bar.
1 project | /r/pop_os | 16 Jan 2023
Maximized window Position after Standby - Dash to Panel
2 projects | /r/gnome | 26 Nov 2022
An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2022

Same here, only with Dash to Panel.
https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel
What is this yellow dot? I've never seen it before.
1 project | /r/pop_os | 19 Aug 2022

Initially it read as if the feature i wanted wasn't included in dash to panel but it seems like it is...https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel/issues/208
TIL: Gnome's most famous extensions, 'Dash to Panel' and 'Arc Menu' are forks of ZorinOS' Zorin Menu and Zorin Taskbar
7 projects | /r/linux | 12 Jul 2022
Visual Effects for GNOME 42 ..plus the links on comment
11 projects | /r/gnome | 7 Jul 2022

Dash to Panel (the bottom panel): https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel
Window flickering when minimize / show up
1 project | /r/gnome | 3 Jul 2022

Can you record what happens without any extension enabled? I suspected it was your dock extension because it perfectly fits this bug: https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel/issues/1698
FYI gnome 42 just hit testing repo
1 project | /r/archlinux | 4 Apr 2022

It should be working somehow, but it really isn't. At least not with the current git version.

sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
Sway 1.9 Release
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
Sway 1.9
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024
"We understand" ;)
2 projects | /r/discordapp | 9 Dec 2023

This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
Firefox on the Brink?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.
I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
Sourcing dot profile on sway starutp
1 project | /r/swaywm | 27 Nov 2023

I'm seeing this: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Setting-Environmental-Variables but I haven't figured out how to make GDM do it, and I was wondering if there was a super simple "HEY SWAY READ MY .PROFILE" thing I could do.
Option to not scale xwindow clients still out of the question?
1 project | /r/swaywm | 21 Nov 2023

So I searched around and found the following bug report where this problem and a possible solution was borough up: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/2966 , which was then immediately closed again.
Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
What Desktop Environment or Window Manager do you use on your Arch Linux System and why?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 7 Nov 2023

I've been using Sway since late 2019. I like the workflow of a WM. I honestly find it hard to go back to a DE, I like having a minimalistic desktop.
On Desktop GUI Minimalism
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023

Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manager, sway-launcher-desktop for FZF-powered app launching, and wob for lightweight brightness and volume display (send '50' to the wob socket and it'll show 50%; it doesn't get simpler).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dash-to-panel and sway you can also consider the following projects:

dash-to-dock - A dock for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash out of the overview transforming it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and desktops.

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

dash-to-panel - An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

shell - Pop!_OS Shell

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

ArcMenu

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)