Extension Questions

[webmastak]

I correctly understood that you can change the order of these icons?

Tell me your extension will work with a gnome shell 3.34?
You can show an example of what the ordering-override.keyfile file should be.

[andia89]

Hello,

yes that's the idea. Should work with 3.34

My keyfile looks like that:

a11y=1
dropbox=2
freonMenu=3
diodonGnomeIndicator=4
remmina-icon=7
Caffeine=5
variety=6
vericold=9
TeamViewer=8
Franz1=10
unitymail=11
keyboard=12
dateMenu=13
aggregateMenu=14

activities=1
appMenu=2

but you will have to play with that because you need the correct name of the icons (in your picture I only see aggregateMenu and keyboard)...

You can find that out in lookingGlass (Alt+F2 "lg") in the evaluator with

Main.panel.statusArea which gives you the items, and then you need to find the _indicator.id for each icon

I will try to make that a bit more user friendly if possible!

[webmastak]

Thank you for the quick and detailed answer.
You could not take a screenshot as I did? To make it easier to understand how all this will look.😃

[andia89]

sure :)

Here you go

This gives me a panel that looks like that:

There are a few custom icons (for programs that I made myself) but as you can see with for example dropbox, owncloud and insync they are ordered quite nicely :)

[viggy96]

How exactly do I find the icon names for icons that are statusbar icons rather than icons from a gnome extension? Like I've got steam and nextcloud icons, and those aren't produced by an extension, but rather are appindicator icons created by the program itself. There isn't an 'extension.js' I can look in to get the icon name for those.

[webmastak]

I do not know.

But for tray icons, I use TopIcons Plus and Minimize to Tray extensions.

[andia89]

I made a workaround to figure out how to figure out the proper names (last commit)

activate the extension open a terminal, and type journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f
then open any program that adds an indicator to the panel and you should see something like:

Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: activities 
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: appMenu
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: dateMenu
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: dwellClick
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: a11y
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: keyboard
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: aggregateMenu
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: system-monitor
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: Caffeine
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: diodonGnomeIndicator
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: Insync
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: ownCloud
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: unity-mail
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: remmina-icon
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: Franz1
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: adr
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: vericold
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: dropbox
Nov 05 11:48:45 andreas-office gnome-shell[18321]: Order application icons: TeamViewer

which are exactly the names you have to put in the file

If you don't specify the names in the file, they will be ordered alphabetically with the first ones to the left

[andia89]

see the updated readme for insctructions. It should be much easier now!

[frost19k]

@andia89 Do I explicitly have to record every icon from the journalctl command in the keyfile?

Let's say, from your example, I only care that aggregateMenu is right-most then, moving left, I want Caffeine followed by ownCloud. I do not care about the order of any of the other icons.

[andia89]

@frost19k
you don't have to specifiy the rest, but then they will be ordered alphabetically and the order will always remain the same. so you can just specifiy the last ones and then the rest will be done by itself