Settings.ui: - Move thickness, length, and anchor from Style tab to Position tab. Group together with position in the same frame. schema: - Remove unpublished panel-length and panel-anchor settings, replacing them with panel-lengths and panel-anchors JSON objects (like panel-positions). - Remove unpublished anchor enum, since panel-anchors is being managed by the extension in JSON, not typed by the schema. - Deprecate panel-size in favour of new panel-sizes JSON, storing per-monitor panel sizes. - Mention that panel-position is deprecated. Introduce panelSettings.js: - Functions to fetch or set panel settings that are stored as JSON. Grown from now-removed getSettingsPositions() in panelPositions.js. prefs.js: - Group together the different UI widget label and value refreshing into method _updateWidgetSettingsForMonitor(). - Change multi-panel behaviour of _setAnchorLabels(). Previously, all panels shared the same anchor setting, and so setAnchorLabels considered all monitors. Now, panels are configured either independently, or sometimes all together; set labels according to orientation(s) of panel(s) being configured. - Omitting preventTop handling in refactored _setPanelPosition() method. Previously, it was written to set the first monitor's panel to Pos.BOTTOM if the user clicked the Top position radio button, if stockgs-keep-top-panel was also set. But the user can't activate the Top button anyway if stockgs is set (likely implemented later). panelManager.js: - Removing panelPositions, as it is not needed any more.
Introduction
Dash to Panel is an icon taskbar for Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.
Beyond that, just about every aspect of the panel is fully customizable. From positioning and scaling panel elements to running indicators to multi-monitor display, to window previews and even intellihide, Dash to Panel has everything you need to make your workspace feel like home.
Features
| Customizable appearance |
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| Hide & show panel elements and set their positions, sizes & colors |
| Live Previews on Hover |
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| Hover over the launcher icon for an open application to get a live window preview |
| Launch by Number |
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| Optionally launch your favorite applications via keyboard |
| Panel Intellihide |
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| Hide and reveal the panel according to your set preferences |
Installation
To install the most recent official release: Visit Dash-to-Panel at GNOME Extensions
To install a development version from source, please see the Installation wiki page.
FAQ
How do I customize the panel? See the Wiki
How do I embed my bottom left notification drawer into the panel like a system tray? Top Icons Plus or (K)StatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support
How do I add a traditional start menu? Arc Menu
How do I disable the hot corner? No Topleft Hot Corner
How do I move the notifications to somewhere other than the top center? Panel OSD
How do I display Minimize & Maximize buttons? In the Tweak Tool application, turn on Windows > Titlebar Buttons > Minimize & Maximize.
How do I reset the extension to its default settings? dconf reset -f /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-panel/.
Themes
While this extension works well with most popular Gnome Shell themes, the following themes are known to have explicitly added custom styles for this extension:
Compatibility
This extension has been tested with Gnome 3.18+.
This extension manipulates the Gnome Main Panel, aka Top Bar. So, most other extensions which operate on the top bar should be compatible.
Donation
Dash-to-Panel is provided free of charge. If it has improved your workflow, or you had a great support experience, feel free to say thanks by making a donation to the developers. (If you would like your donation to go to a specific developer, you may mention it in the note field during payment)
Volunteers needed!
This extension could be even better with your help! Any items in the issue tracker labelled help wanted or good first issue are up for grabs. For more info, see the Contributing wiki page.
Credits
This extension is developed and maintained by @jderose9 and @charlesg99.
Significant portions of code in this extension were derived from Dash-to-Dock.
Additional credits: This extension leverages the work for ZorinOS Taskbar (used in ZorinOS) to show window previews and 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. Ideas for recursing child actors and assigning inline styles are based on code from the extension StatusAreaHorizontalSpacing.
Thanks to the following people for contributing via pull requests:
- @franglais125 for launching apps by number (w/ overlay), bug fixes, and issue support
- @LinxGem33 and @sbarrett322 for artwork, logos, screenshots and design effort
- @dziku1337 for peek mode in window previews
- @robrobinbin for configuring appMenu on/off in the panel
- @MartinPL for toggling favorites on/off in panel
- @jackwickham for thumbnail middle and right click actions
- @abakkk for centering the taskbar icons in the panel
- @quasoft for changing of font weight of ungrouped application titles
- @jordanribera for using icon's dominant color as running indicator color
- @tper0700 for dynamically building context menu based on system capabilities
- @levacic for configurable minimized application title font color
- @l3nn4rt for toggling workspace switch popup
- @hlechner for adjustable show desktop line color and window preview icon size
Bug Fixes:
@imrvelj, @Teslator, @bil-elmoussaoui, @brandon-schumann, @sw9, @rockon999 , @lexruee, @3v1n0, @freeroot, @moqmar, @ArtyomZorin, @lkc0987, @saibotk, @vanillajonathan, @Zkdc, @leebickmtu, @l3nn4rt, @Melix19
Documentation Improvements:
@BoQsc, @zakkak, @dandv
Translations:
@frnogueira (pt_BR), @zeten30 (cs), @franglais125 / @calotam / @oeramirez (es), @LaurentTreguier / @SolarLiner (fr), @elsieholmes (uk), @hosiet (zh_CN), @jonnius / @linuxr01 (de), @urbalazs / @pappfer (hu), @crayxt (kk), @pkomur / @MartinPL / @alex4401 (pl), @AlexGluck / @GoodNike / @rjapolov (ru), @sicklylife-jp / @ryonakano (ja), @oltulu / @TeknoMobil / @daenney (tr), @sbadux / @kowalski7cc / @l3nn4rt (it), @OriginCode / @pan93412 (zh_TW), @ojn (sv), @frandieguez (gl)
License & Terms 
Dash to Panel is available under the terms of the GPL-v2 or later license See COPYING for details.












