This is my daily computing Linux desktop using GNOME. Somewhat inspired by Windows 11 I guess. (had to use it for work for a while back)

I am curious do others find this appearance pleasing and functional ? Feel free to give feedback or improvements.

Theming:

  • GTK: adw-gtk3 & adw-colors Peninsula-dark (windowcontrols only)
  • Cursor: Bibata Modern Ice
  • Firefox: Firefox Alpenglow and Tabliss

GNOME Extensions:

  • Alphabetical App Grid
  • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
  • Blur my Shell
  • ClipboardHistory
  • Dash to Panel
  • Date Menu Formatter
  • Just Perfection
  • Notification Banner Reloaded
  • Rounded Corners
  • Rounded Window Corners Reborn
  • Tiling Shell
  • Weather or Not

    • jarno@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      The first only rounds screen corners, adjusted so that the border radius is similar to my laptops bezels. The second one rounds(and adds outlines) to all application windows.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    This actually gives me some thoughts for my setup! I like it, thanks for sharing!

    I will say, at least on mobile I think the experience of looking at the screenshots would be much better if the images were embedded rather than linked to externally :)

    • jarno@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Thank you! I was not able to figure out how to embed multiple images that is why it is on external website.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Thats entirely valid, that took me a while to figure out too lol.

        If you’d like to embed an image, you will need the image address (go to the page with the full sized image, right click or long press, and copy the image URL/address, or sometimes click on the image and if it takes you to a blank page with nothing with the image, then you can copy the address from the URL bar)

        And if you only wanna post one image, you’d just paste that url as the post link

        If you want more than one image you’d need to embed the other images in the post description, which you would do the same was as making a link, but with an exclamation point in front. The top will embed an image, the bottom will link to a webpage

        EDIT: THIS IS WRONG, IM DUMB. the second one shouldn’t have the exclamation point. No one will ever see this correction 🥲

        So you’d type !,[],() without the commas, and paste the image url in (). If there’s a way to insert a link through the web ui you can also just do that, leave the link text blank, and put an exclamation point in front, which is what I do on mobile :)

        I went ahead and embedded two of the images to serve as an example if you view the raw comment, and/or make it so folks can see them without leaving lemmy in case you don’t wanna bother faffing around with embedding them :)

  • OmegaLemmy
    21·
    6 days ago

    Why do gnome users have so many extensions installed? I only use blur my shell…

    • jarno@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      To me I need to see the open programs and the amount of windows of those. Also maybe because of familiarity never got used to title bar of app and status bar both being on top of the screen to me this layout is more sense. Anyways also tried KDE which would require less extensions but the issue was weather, clock style and other minor things I could not tweak/fine tune to look right for me.

  • Affidavit@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 days ago

    My feedback: I wish it was -15 °C… To snuggle up under a bundle of blankets sounds divine. Instead, it’s almost midnight where I am and it’s still bloody 32 °C.

    The UI looks nice, though I’ve effectively disabled the Overview and replaced it with the ArcMenu on my setup. I’ve also aligned my common/active applications to the left on my panel rather than centred (so that my pinned applications are always in the same position and don’t budge over when I open another program). Rounded corners doesn’t do it for me, I try to avoid anything that removes screen real-estate, no matter how minimal. I’ve also set the bottom panel to auto hide so that it’s only visible when I move my cursor at the bottom of the screen. Overall, your setup’s pretty nice, though I don’t think I like the bright colours for the buttons in the top right of your windows, they’re a little distracting. Mine’s set so the cross is a washed out red colour, the minimise button is a pale horizontal line, and I don’t have a maximise button.

    I’m going to install that Weather or Not extension. Thanks.