vertical-overview VS vertical-workspaces

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)

You can try the V-Shell extension which offers a more flexible algorithm that can use all available space and also offers custom grid dimensions and icon sizes. Currently, I recommend installing the latest version from GitHub.

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.

Thanks for the feedback, could you (anyone) test the latest development version from the GitHub repository and let me know what you think? I've made some style changes to the search and app folder views, hopefully for the better...

While searching for a solution discovered the amazing V-Shell extension by GdH: https://github.com/G-dH/vertical-workspaces

My solution are "active folders" with up to 3x3 directly accessible icons without having to open the folder. Available in the V-Shell extension.

V-Shell extension has the option, ignoring all folders. But It also offers active folder previews with up to 9 icons and up to 256px size, that allows better app grouping with direct access to the first 4 or 9 apps from each folder (with adaptive dialog size). You can even open all apps from a folder at once by dragging the folder on the workspace thumbnail. Now the folders finally make sense even to me :)

If you want better control over the Shell UI, try my V-Shell extension, moving the title inside preview was the first thing I changed after switching to GNOME 40+.

Available on GitHub , the final version 24 will be available on e.g.o site soon.

V-Shell. The latest version in the repository allows you to customize the Shell whether you like horizontally or vertically stacked workspaces.