No, this is not another post to describe my feelings about Gnome 3, what we should have done or should we have shipped Gnome 2 instead 
This post is more of an open question to the community for some information that I cannot find. I almost finished the configuration of my setup in Gnome 3 but I have some interrogation :
1 – I tried to remove the keyboard applet in the system tray with the same logic that the nobluetooth and noa11y extension. This effectively work but leave me with the default Gnome 2 keyboard applet. And I cannot seems to find a way to remove that one.
2 – I cannot find where the configuration for the launcher in the favourite bar are stored. I know that we can edit the menus with “alacarte” but I want to see where Gnome 3 store that an application should appear in the favourite bar.
3 – I search the documentation to see how Gnome 3 track the applications windows to highlight running applications in the favourite bar and found nothing. I know it’s not based on the window title with my experiment but I found no other way.
Also, if anyone want to hide the battery icon apart from when it’s charging/discharging (like in Gnome 2), you can run this command as your user :
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.power-manager icon-policy charge
Apart from that, I find that Gnome 3 is really powerful with an easy extension system, just look at the number of extensions that got out since Gnome 3 was launched. I look forward to what can be done!
June 14, 2011 at 11:47 |
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June 14, 2011 at 21:59 |
#2. dconf org.gnome.shell.favorite-apps
June 14, 2011 at 23:22 |
2- This is somewhere in gsettings. However, I’m not sure alacarte can be used in Gnome-Shell.
3- This has to do with the desktop file that was used to run the application.
June 15, 2011 at 07:18 |
Thanks to you both, it will help me continue to customize my Gnome 3 experience a little bit more.
Also, alacarte work fine in Gnome 3, it edit the menus like before and it show up in the Applications “Activities” fine.
June 25, 2011 at 09:05 |
To add a custom launcher to Gnome Favourites Menu
- Either create the .desktop file in “/usr/share/applications” or use “alacarte” to create it for you.
- Go to Activities -> Applications List, you should find your new launcher here, right click on it and select “Add to Favourites”
June 27, 2011 at 04:35 |
#2 gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
you can use gsettings set to set the value of the key (favorite-apps)