wapanel
Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors. Mir compatible. (by Firstbober)
shell
:shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)
| wapanel | shell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 59 | 240 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 10.0 | 7.7 | |
| about 3 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
wapanel
Posts with mentions or reviews of wapanel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Recommendations for a KDE style taskbar?
not KDE like, but Xfce like https://github.com/Firstbober/wapanel
shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.
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KDE Plasma 6.0 is expected to come next summer. What are your expectations?
sddm is no KDE project, btw. One or two KDE developers contribute to sddm but the actual maintainer no longer cares to put out releases (he thinks he can develop an entire Plasma competitor as a one-man project). Fedora switched to a tested git snapshot for this reason.
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Wayland desktops
Not any of the popular ones, but there are a few smaller ones: Liri: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Liri https://github.com/lirios/shell Maui Shell: https://github.com/Nitrux/maui-shell
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So many GTK Desktop Environments, yet so little Qt ones
There is also https://github.com/lirios/shell
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wapanel and shell you can also consider the following projects:
hyprpaper - Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.
starship - SailfishOS synchronization app for AsteroidOS.
gBar - Blazingly fast status bar written with GTK
HWVD - Space Clock Example for Kraken Z Playground
hyprpicker - A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.
nextspace - NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux