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You’re absolutely right ! :+1:
Ouinedaube or Kouinedaube or Couindaube or Windaube is a play on words for “Windows”: in French, “couiner”, means “to complain constantly” and “daube” is a slang term to mean that something is wrong.
Same for Macoaisse: “Mac” naturally for “Mac” and oaisse or “aisse” (Macaisse), Ma caisse meaning “my cash drawer”. alternatively “caisse” in slang language means “car”…
French is a funny language! :fr:

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Where I am located we use this term almost every day…

I switched yesterday to gnome. I was or am a long time kde user and like it. But I want to try Gnome, I will not modify it to the point that I use gnome the same way as kde. I want to try gnome with an open mind and see, if my workflow adapt after some time and if it will get better or worse.

Aside the Workflow, I must say, that on my first impression, Wayland works a lot better and flatpaks have better integration.

The only Extension I use, is a MacOS like Dock. What confuse me often is, that there in no minimize…

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You mean in the window’s title bar?

gnome-tweaks:

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Thx, I will look at it when I’m home, but thats really nice.

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You might need to install gnome-tweaks if it is not already installed.

In the same time I try gnome, I test openSuse MicroOS an there gnome-tweaks is on board. I use it for fractional scaling.

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I also like dash to panel, but to get to move quickly between workspaces or move windows from one workspace to another etc… ideally one tries the keyboard or gestures. For sure it’s different to kde workflow, to my opinion more ideal on laptop for the gesture part.

Edit: I also like to mention, that I use gnome Wayland, it has preset fractional scaling, and I switch constantly connections to different screens with different resolutions between work, projectors, laptop and home. It works flawlessly and no crashes. These two are a plus on gnome.

For work at the moment (have to) use Pop OS though

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At this time, my favourite extension is “Dash-to-Dock”, closer to the aesthetic spirit of gnome than “Dash-to-Panel”.
“Arc Menu” is also a must-have extension.

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I use the following quite often when making Ragin’ Cajun 15 bean soup. :yum:

United States

In the US, the sausage is most often associated with Louisiana Cajun cuisine,
where it is a coarse-grained smoked sausage made using pork, garlic, pepper,
onions, wine, and seasonings. Once the casing is stuffed, the sausage is
smoked again (double smoked). Nicknamed "The Andouille Capital of the World,"
the town of LaPlace, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River, is especially noted
 for its Cajun andouille. 

Pudge

It is a well known fact that all of Europe laugh at British sausages :smiley: You may be able to buy it at a specialist retailer, but never heard of it and have never seen it in a supermarket!

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I LOVE Cajun food. Spicy and delicious.

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Definitely all of this! ^

I’ve tried a few distros over the past year trying to find “the one” (hooray EOS! :smiley: ). I had REALLY wanted to make KDE my DE of choice through it all, but the continual finding myself wishing it had “this or that” feature that I liked in other DEs on top of never “successfully” fully customizing the UI the way I perfectly wanted it due to a littany of things ranging from UI theming inconsistencies or blatantly broken UI customizations/options, I cut my losses and went to GNOME. I’ve given GNOME the same obsessive countless hours of exploring, tweaking, configuring, customizing that I invested into KDE, and it has paid off big time! I’m extremely and emphatically satisfied with the results! As always though, YMMV. :wink:

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now after a short Time with gnome, I used some extensions and I notice, that I didn’t change my workflow because gnome resembled more macOS (wich I use on my Macbook) than gnome.

So I disabled the extension an the minimize/maximize buttons and I start to adapt my workflow. It works an I start to like the new approche.

The only thing that annoys me it the “dock / app-launcher”. Why clicking on top of the screen the make the dock visible an than go completely down to open an App…

What really impress me is the flatpak integration, compared to kde. And that nearly all gnome apps are available as flatpak.

Speaking about integration, I find gtk app look better on kde, than qt apps on gnome.

I understand your dilemma. I’ve been using Gnome for a long time, maybe even the classic one. Despite this, I used XFCE and Cinnamon for a long time. We know that the latter is also Gnome-based. I like XFCE because it doesn’t have a lot of frills. Then I tried Gnome 43 in the good old days. In order to use it comfortably, some extensions are necessary.
Then I ended up going in the opposite direction than you. I’m back to the KDE I’ve been using for a long time. I somehow felt that Gnome was less customizable than Plasma. KDE has outgrown the childhood illnesses I experienced when I used it a long time ago. Its interface can be customized quite well, and it works at least as stable in my hands as XFCE, which I naturally keep in reserve.

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There is no dock on Vanilla Gnome. I think you are talking about Dash.
If you want a dock-like behavior, install dash-to-dock (or dash-to-panel) and configure it the way you like.

Yes Dash (for Dash is a hidden Dock).

But perhaps I express myself wrong (English is not my nativ language sorry), but what I want to say, was: the more I use the vanilla Gnome experience the more I enjoy it. There is only some stuff that need more flexibility from my mind, to change my behavior from what I was conditioned with Windows, KDE or even MacOS.

I try to keep my mind as open as opensource :wink:

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Dash cannot be configured to stay on screen. I understood from your previous post that that is something annoying to you. Hence my suggestions. But if you are happy with the Vanilla experience, who am I to suggest anything to the contrary?

Gnome on! :wave:t5:

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So, question for the Gnome experts :

What are the “top five” best extensions for Gnome ?

If you pick any random GNOME user, they would give you a different “Top 5” list.

I install and try quite a few of them whenever I come across an article or a video recommending one or other extensions. However I don’t keep them all.

If I were to pick my “Top Five”:

  1. dash-to-panel

I use it at top to replace GNOME’s own topbar. It is quite versatile but I configure it minimally.

  1. Blur my shell

  2. Custom Hot Corners -Extended

  3. Clipboard History

  4. User Themes

However I do use a few more.

There is also this forum thread: Gnome Extensions, what are YOUR favorites?

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