GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

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GNOME Devs May Replace 'Activities' Label with this Indicator - OMG! Linux
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This is really cool. I install extensions to remove the Activities button and display a workspace indicator.

A lot of Workspaces might present a problem though. Currently, the Workspace indicator extension with collapse into a number after 8, or so, and I’m not sure how that scenario would work with the proposal.

Btw, they released it as an extension.

It seems more and more that the GNOME extension ecosystem is going to make it more customizable than Plasma one day

From my experience so far it's more like installing gnome extensions just to get a fraction of the customization of stock kde, and I don't really see that changing any time soon.

It's cool in some ways, but in my experience updates of GNOME breaking some extensions, or extensions being abandoned, etc made it a real pain.

KDE's user created widgets and kwin scripts is still more flexible and powerful, and Gnome has been falling behind for a long time. Pretty much everyone would have to give up on Plasma and choose to maintain Gnome extensions instead - I don't think that's likely.

Cant wait for them to revamp the package manager app to make discoverability better. ATM you have to sift through a lot of old and unsupported additions to find something that works well