MMOD Panel is an upgrade to the Topbar in Gnome3, creating a customizable panel and providing options for fine-tuning your Desktop Experience.
Supported Gnome-shell versions:
- 3.10
- 3.12
- 3.12.2
- 3.14
- 3.14.4
- 3.16
- 3.16.2
- 3.18
Check out MMOD-Panel at extensions.gnome.org.
Upon installation you will find yourself greeted by MMOD-Panel's Gnome Extension Preferences Window. You may browse through the settings and make changes as you like.
- Set comfort levels to provide theme support and fine-tune the overall look and feel of the panel.
- Set the location/position of the panel (bottom by default).
- Add a button to the panel in place of the activities link, using an icon of your preference.
- Auto-hide the panel when not active/in-focus (makes use of pressure/gesture for showing the panel).
- Display and manage your favorites/running apps directly on the panel.
- Move the date menu to the aggregate/tray area.
- Access and manage your extension preferences directly from the aggregate menu.
- Customize behavior of the overview and panel(hot-corners/animations/effects) to suit your preferences.
- More to come soon!
This project is loosely based on the Panel Settings extension:
Sadly, Panel Settings has not seen any maintenance in over 2 years, though this is why I decided to create MMOD Panel.
I also took inspiration from the following Gnome extensions:
- System-Monitor
- Taskbar
- DashToDock.
For those of you who are wondering, the theme used in the screen shot (found at extensions.gnome.org) is the Zukitwo-Dark-Shell Shell Theme; everything else is default Gnome on Debian Jessie. However, the author of the aforementioned shell theme has changed the name for various reasons to Ciliora-Prima-Shell - which can be found here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=165096
German Translation(s) for MMOD-Panel courtesy of:
- Jonius Zeidler jonatan_zeidler@gmx.de"
- I personally use the Zukitwo-Dark-Shell (now termed Ciliora-Prima-Shell) Gnome Shell theme, which you can find over at gnome-look.org, with this extension (and user themes obviously) only, on Debian Jessy.
- Auto-hide works well, hovering your mouse over an empty portion of the panel will not keep it open; it only stays open when activities, app preferences, favorites, aggregate, and date buttons/icons are hovered, and when the overview, date menu, or aggregate menu are open (note that the app preferences menu does not keep the panel shown either).
- The link to the website for feedback is currently to the homepage of our web site and there is no respective form or area to leave feedback; it will be up in the very near future.
- Position modifications were changed to wait for realization (excludes style modification, only position).
- The shell support for MMOD-Panel has been changed to 3.10+ rather than 3.8+.
- The main VCS in use is now our Gitlab instance over at code.mmogp.com. However, we're still mirroring to Github.com, due to popular demand.
Feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests. Documentation for getting the development environment setup is coming soon.
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