vertical-overview VS just-perfection-gnome-shell-desktop

I happily used vanilla GNOME in the past for many years. Unfortunately they've been making some questionable changes recently, and now I need to use extensions to undo those changes... Essential extensions for me are Panel Corners, and either Vertical Overview or V-Shell.

Vertical Overview — To bring back the objectively superior vertical overview that was used to have with stock GNOME.

How is this better or different than vertical overview? https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview

Easier might be to look for existing extensions which ignore Clutter.TextDirection.* altogether, and try to recreate/improve the GNOME Shell from them. To Starte, perhaps you're interested in bringing the Vertical Overview back?, I think all dash-to-* extensions order icons from left-to-right, or have some setting to invert the order, some let you change the position of each element like dash-to-panel.

Possibly Related PR: https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview/pull/79 (not sure)

I'm used to horizontal workspaces and even prefer them, but the Vertical Overview extension had the feature of "static background" and "hide scaling workspaces" that I really liked. So, I extracted the code responsible for those into a new extension.

I was and still am very disappointed with the overview changes. I'm someone who has happily used stock GNOME for years and years. I've always tried to avoid extensions and custom themes, as I actually like the stock experience and appreciate the design decisions the GNOME team has made. But this overview change I really just cannot agree with. It forced me to go to the vertical-overview extension, but unfortunately that isn't really the same as how it was.

I was using GNOME without extensions for years, and loved it. Unfortunately with the latest release of GNOME I've had to start using the vertical-overview extension, since they redesigned the native overview screen in a way that's objectively inferior.

The icons are kind of useful, the Vertical Overview extension I use keeps them)

I doubt it'll be implemented super soon though as it seems like an extremely niche use-case (I wouldn't even know why one would want to hide the sound icon). If it is indeed just an easy modification from the existing possibility to hide the power icon, then maybe you can ask kindly as a feature request on their Gitlab. But keep in mind that the extension basically runs on volunteer work and they have no obligation to implement whatever. A "sorry there's no time for this, try and implement it yourself" from the developers would be a completely understandable answer.

LOL. Why categorized as security issue? The warning you see there is coming from this line: https://gitlab.com/justperfection.channel/just-perfection-gnome-shell-desktop/-/blob/f0969343d164b066061f001e5100c376ebdd61d6/lib/API.js#L178

Yes! Please subscribe to this GitLab issue and I'll let you know there.

We have an open issue about that. I did that before and could cause performance issue. I need to test it on GNOME Shell 40 though and see the result.

If you are talking about Just Perfection extension, I had a request on GitLab. I'm not so sure about this one but I'm not saying I'm not doing it. Maybe I'll implement this feature for version 12 or 13.

I've implemented 15% for workspace switcher size. You can build it manually until the next version lands on the extensions website.

Yes but not for version 11 or 12. I'm getting so much feature requests that need to be implemented. Maybe on 13. Just open an request issue on GitLab.

Personally, I will support older Shell versions for my own extension, since I wrote an API for that and I want to give older versions more new features + I'm supporting 3.36 until 2025.