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[#]: subject: "This Indicator Could Just Make GNOME 'Activities' Out of Fashion"
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[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-activities-indicator/"
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[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972"
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This Indicator Could Just Make GNOME 'Activities' Out of Fashion
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GNOME's surprising design decisions could work well. What do you think?
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GNOME's design team is back in the news after the recent proposal for [a new, unconventional window management][1] system in GNOME. They have now revealed a prototype for “rethinking” the Activities button on GNOME.
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This came in just yesterday when **Allan Day** opened an issue on GNOME's GitLab repo, explaining the difficulties with the current Activities button and how a new implementation could help.
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### A Pill instead of a Button
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![][2]
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Yes, you read that right. The GNOME design team aims to replace the Activities button with a **Pill-shaped dynamic workspace indicator** that allows for a more intuitive workspace-switching experience than before.
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As you can see above, the new Pill switcher works quite well and is slightly similar to the workspace switcher found on the i3 tiling window manager.
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I could also use my mouse's scroll wheel to instantly switch between workspaces without clicking on the Pill.
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You might be wondering, **what's the point of this?**
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Well, the design team found out that the **existing Activities button didn't exactly sit well** with many users and even caused confusion in some cases. Even first-time users were found not to interact with the button, as one would expect them to.
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After a long discussion with the design team, they concluded that the Activities label should be replaced with a more “abstract” visual element.
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You can check out the discussion on GNOME's [GitLab repo][3].
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📋
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The change is in its discussion phase and may or may not take place in the upcoming GNOME releases.
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**Want to try it out?**
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Well, the GNOME design team has provided **a very early work-in-progress shell extension** that can be installed on GNOME 44 systems.
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You can get it from [here][4] or click on the button to get the zip file.
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[activities-filled-pill_verdre.zip][4]
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If you don't know how to [install GNOME shell extensions manually][5], I suggest you follow the **fourth method** mentioned in our article below.
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Just start extracting the downloaded file before you do.
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![][6]
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So, wrapping up.
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This prototype seems to be shaping up quite well, and I can't wait to get my hands on this when it is officially available as part of GNOME.
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_💬 What about you? Are you looking forward to this?_
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**Via:** [omg! linux!][7]
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via: https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-activities-indicator/
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作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-window-management-plan/
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[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/07/GNOME_Pill.gif
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[3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/227?ref=news.itsfoss.com
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[4]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/uploads/4d8e57447a2b2bfb4bf281d7c70bf0cb/activities-filled-pill_verdre.zip?ref=news.itsfoss.com
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[5]: https://itsfoss.com/gnome-shell-extensions/?ref=news.itsfoss.com
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[6]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/android-chrome-192x192.png
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[7]: https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-test-activities-button-replacement/?ref=news.itsfoss.com
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[8]: https://linuxhandbook.com/tag/bash-beginner/
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[9]: https://itsfoss.community/
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[10]: https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/
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