An icon-only taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel (top bar) to behave as an icon-only task manager similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+.

Installation from source

The extension can be installed directly from source, either for the convenience of using git or to test the latest development version. Clone the desired branch with git

git clone https://github.com/jderose9/dash-to-panel.git

or download the branch from github. A simple Makefile is included. Then run

make
make install

to install the extension in your home directory. A Shell reload is required Alt+F2 r Enter and the extension has to be enabled with gnome-tweak-tool or with dconf.

Features

Embed dash-to-dock in gnome top bar
Move main panel (top bar) to bottom of screen
Resize main panel

TODO

disable built-in dash
allow tray items to be reordered
reorder "activities" and open apps view" buttons when both visible
resize of tray icons and font
resize of extension icons added to left box (gno-menu for instance) to match dash icon size
replace activities (overview) button text with an icon
assign middle click behavior
assign left click behavior when multiple windows of same app is open
allow disabling "open apps view" animation
hide "open apps view" button
allow moving running apps indicator to above icons
configure icon spacing

Bug Reporting

Bugs should be reported to the Github bug tracker https://github.com/jderose9/dash-to-panel/issues.

License

Dash to Panel Gnome Shell extension is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.

Credits

The bulk of the code in this extension comes from Dash-to-Dock. This extension leverages the work for ZorinOS Taskbar used in ZorinOS to allow the dash from Dash-to-Dock to be embedded in the Gnome main panel.