On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Michael Knepher wrote: > No official configuration tools will be forthcoming for some time (if at > all). With a little tinkering, however, it is possible to change the > appearance. See > http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/03/customizing-the-gnome-3-shell.html > for a good overview. You can also install gnome-tweak-tool and > gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme and change the entire theme. A good > source for alternative themes is > http://gnome-shell.deviantart.com/gallery/28081982 > > Gnome-tweak-tool will also allow you to change the icon theme. > > Most indications are that there is a good chance that the way things > work internally may change in 3.2, so developers are warning that > extensions that work now may not work with 3.2. Whether they plan to > stabilize things and at least make gnome-shell more friendly for > customization (if not officially supporting it) remains to be seen. Thanks for the information. I will try a 'little/lot' of tinkering. Sort of like in my blackbox/fluxbox days again. Though I don't feel happy about it at all. The developers are (and have been) doing great work (the overall concept of gnome 3 is innovative and promising) but are'nt they getting just a tiny bit too authoritative and dictatorial: opensource should be about freedom and choice. And the choice should not only be 'you can still choose another window manager'. Gnome 2.3 had quite a lot of choice. For example when they added a second panel (do they have laptops with 5:4 format screens?) you could remove it, hide it, or put the panels at the sides. (I removed it). > For hiding app icons, the alacarte menu editor should still work with > gnome-shell. It does (sort of). Alexander -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
