Dash to Dock

A new extension version (v35) supporting GNOME Shell 3.14 is now available.

It can be installed from the extension website upon approval which as usual will take some time, or downloaded manually from the release page. See also the alternative installation methods for instructions.

This version provide compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.14.2, which broke the update of the appicon status on the thus. Few other fixes are included as detailed in the release notes below.

Release notes

• Compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.14.2 (Appicon status changes was broken)
• Bug fixes: Make workspaceSwitcherPopup not reactive. In this way it doesn’t prevent the click events from reaching the dash. Thisallows the switch of multiple workspaces at the same time.
• Bug fixes: Do not show workspaceSwitcherPopup in the overview.
• Bug fixes: Use dash symbolic icon in the accessibility panel.
• Bug fixes: animate appicon on launching as 3.14 default.
• Update German translation

Many people have been asking for a bottom dock instead of the default side positioning. Even tough I was very reluctant at the beginning for a variety of reasons, including lazyness and lack of personal interest for this particular design choice, I recently reconsidered this option.

Few people tried to adapt this extension to obtain a bottom dock, with a major working fork by the ozonos and Numix people that also landed on the extension website as Simple Dock. I’m going to reintegrate back their work.

Some initial attempts thanks to the contribution of itproject are on the experimental_bottom_dock branch on Github. This has to be considered hightly experimental. It will take some time to land into the master branch, after a careful review and cleaning up of the code, the priority being the long term maintenability of the extension over new features. This work is slowly being carried out in the bottom_dock branch, from where the screenshot above come from.

These changes will allow the placementt of the dock also on the right edge of the screen, although I’ll take care of it later.

Follow the development on the Github projet page

A new extension version (v34) adding support to GNOME Shell 3.14 is now available, in time for the new GNOME 3.14 release.

It can be installed from the extension website upon approval, or downloaded manually from the release page. See also the alternative installation methods for instructions.

This is a port of previous version to GNOME Shell 3.14. No new features have been added.

Release notes

• Port to GNOME Shell 3.14
• Bug fixes:
  • In overview, only change workspace in WINDOWS view.

A new extension version (v33) supporting GNOME Shell 3.12 has been released and can be found as usual from the extension website upon approval, or downloaded manually from the release page. See also the alternative installation methods for instructions.

This is a bug fixes release, just correcting a visual glitch when sliding the dash upon messageTray showing. This is also version 32 as it was uploaded twice by mistake on the extension website.

Release notes

• Bug fixes:
  • Restore dash stack order after messageTray animation is finished.
• This is also version 32, as it was uploaded twice on the extension website by mistake.

A new extension version (v31) supporting GNOME Shell 3.12 has been released and can be found as usual from the extension website upon approval, or downloaded manually from the release page. See also the alternative installation methods for instructions.

The biggest visible change in this release is the dash sliding up upon messageTray showing. The workspaceSwitcherPopup is now shown when scrolling over the dash to switch workspace. These changes improve the extension integration and consistency with the default GNOME Shell behaviour.

Release notes

• Improvements:
  • Slide up the dash when the messageTray is snown
  • Show workspaceSwitcherPopup when scrolling over the dash to switch workspace
• Bug fixes:
  • tweak pressureBarriers behaviour with fullscreen apps
  • Apply custom theme only if the default Adwaita is used.
  • myDash: correct visual glitch due to animation not run outside the overview.