Dash to Panel

An icon-only taskbar for the GNOME Shell

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
Resize right tray content and left-side content buttons (activities button, applications menu, gno-menu, etc)

TODO

disable built-in dash
reorder "activities" and open apps view" buttons when both visible
replace activities (overview) button text with an icon
allow moving running apps indicator to above icons
configure dash icon spacing and tray item spacing
allow moving overview hotspot to bottom left
allow moving notifications popup
add "show desktop" button

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

Much 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. Code to set anchor position taken from Thoma5/gnome-shell-extension-bottompanel Pattern for moving panel contents based on Frippery Move Clock by R M Yorston

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