gala
Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon (by elementary)
photos
Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS (by elementary)
| gala | photos | |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 5 | |
| 270 | 106 | |
| 1.9% | 0.9% | |
| 9.2 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Vala | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gala
Posts with mentions or reviews of gala.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.
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Look who's there
Or with some manual compiling of things: https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
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Auto tiling
As you can see here, here, here and here some work was done long ago to introduce different tiling options but this feature was never top priority for head dev.
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Layout differencies eOS 5.1.7 vs. eOS 7
it was broken here https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1304/commits. I'm too lazy to revert that code but it's possible to fix the gtk2 dimm bug (which possibly also fixes the rest too)
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Multitask view issues eOS7
Report this issue on GitHub, please https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues
- Rounded window corners in pantheon??
- Gala 7.0.1 Released
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Elementary OS 7
[2] https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-W...
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Can one write pantheon extensions (like for gnome-shell)?
For hiding applications from overview, or showing only windows of the focused app you would need to patch gala, the window manager. It is written mostly in vala, and uses libmutter (the same lib for gnome-shell's window management) underneath. Apparently it has a "plugin" system, but I'm not versed enough that those plugins have to be there at compile time or can be separately compiled. Here's the code: https://github.com/elementary/gala
- Does anybody know if the Pantheon desktop has fullscreen unredirection?
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What exactly would a port to Wayland entail?
There’s a link to a wiki on that project board with that info :) https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
photos
Posts with mentions or reviews of photos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.
- Gtk4 Rewrite Discussion · Photos
- 💡 App Ideas 💡
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Pop OS first time user
If you want you can compile the elementaryos photos app if that works for you then you can compile it from source code if you want: https://github.com/elementary/photos
- Elementary OS rounds out its first decade
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Image display in terminal
Technically, yes, though I don't think there's much support for it. What's wrong with just using an app to display images like shotwell or photos?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gala and photos you can also consider the following projects:
files - File browser designed for elementary OS
elementaryos-firefox-theme - This theme for Firefox supports all the window buttons layouts from Tweaks and it blends into the elementary OS user interface.
showdown - Moved to https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/showdown
mail - Mail app designed for elementary OS
calendar - Desktop calendar app designed for elementary OS
music - Music player and library designed for elementary OS
catts - Catts is a calmer alt + tab task switcher for elementary OS 6 (Odin).
videos - Video player and library app designed for elementary OS
gotham - Gotham: Force Dark Mode in Non-Curated Flatpak Apps on elementary OS