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When entering the Applications menu, all visible windows are hidden. This seems left over from stock GNOME using the wallpaper as the app grid background.
Because COSMIC uses an opaque background for the app grid, we end up with two transitions, one to the wallpaper, and another to the opaque background. The first is unnecessary; the opaque background should just fade in over the windows.
This is especially evident when opening the app grid over a maximized window:
Currently the App Grid only appears on the primary display no matter the position of the cursor or the the currently focused window. This feels awkward when wanting to launch an application using the app grid on the current display.
There are plenty of work arounds for this.
But I'm not sure if any of the would work a well as making the grid appear on the display the user is currently focusing on.
Vertical workspaces work good , But it would be better if it would be really simple to toggle between horizontal and vertical workspaces .
Currently pressing Super+A to enter the Application view and again to exit works but it may be better to use ESC to do this for both Application view and Workspace view. This is to return to the normal view.
When clicking on an item in the system menu (e.g. the power controls), occasionally after clicking the menu closes without activating the item. When the item is not activated, it doesn't receive the orange, active style class.
It tends to happen more frequently with shorter clicks, but Shell is definitely registering the click (since the menu closes) but doesn't activate the menu item, so I think this is definitely a bug.
This might be the current functionality but I didn't see it in the blog or mockup, which focus on separation of views.
While I think the layout changes in GNOME 40 are inferior, since they stuff/cram everything on one axis and make seeing all the workspaces very hard/miniscule, the general workflow of being able to just slam super key or click the top left to do anything I need between activities is very important to me. This is the single-entry workflow.
Instead of having to memorize multiple multi-key shortcuts, I can hit super to switch between what I'm doing fast visually, and to open up something new i just type a few characters to launch a new thing.
If this is not the default totally fine, but please maintain the spirit of the single-entry workflow as an option.
PS: Love your work on this so far and all the right-to-repair initiatives happening, thanks for everything <3
If I open the Applications menu, then restart GNOME Shell with Alt-F2, r, Enter, the dock loses its opaque background:
At this point, the Applications menu also loses its opaque background:
Restarting GNOME Shell again, logging out and back in, flipping the dock's settings on/off, and rebooting do not bring the background color back. I've had this happen once before, and the background color came back after an update.
This is a very minor bug, but I figured it was worth filing anyway. If I turn off the "Show Dock" setting in GCC > Desktop > Dock, the dock goes away as expected. However, I see it appear and disappear briefly after unlocking my screen.
Here are my dock settings, in case it's anything specific here that's making it happen:
pop-cosmic:
Installed: 0.1.0161774272821.04e9846761617742728
Candidate: 0.1.021.04e984676
Version table:
*** 0.1.0161774272821.04~e984676 1001
When you press the Applications button Applications are displayed, however if you switch to Workspaces using the button in the dash it goes back to your desktop instead of switching to the Workspaces view. The reverse is also true.
Oddly if you use the two options in the top bar the interface seems to attempt to switched to the mode requested but fails, requiring you to click the option a second time for the items or Workspaces to show.
Workspace previews/picker are not present when the desktop gets stuck on the Workspaces view.
When running sudo apt install pop-cosmic libpop-desktop-widget gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock gnome-shell-extension-multi-monitors
, I get E: Unable to locate package pop-cosmic
. How do I fix this?
This is definitely low priority, but I thought it might be good to know about. If I double tap and hold Super while it is bound to the launcher, I see the current window overlay appear over my active window, but the launcher doesn't appear until I release Super. This does not happen with the Super
+/
hotkey.
When switching workspaces while moving a window (Shift + Super + Up/Down), the workspaces switcher popup does not show up to indicate which workspace you are on.
Hello!, when can we expect more documentation on installing in platforms like Gentoo or Arch? Would be great if this was in the aur, or in portage.
Have a good one.
Possible bug with adding Screenshot app to favorites list.
Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release
):
NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="20.04 LTS"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME
):
App - GNOME Screenshot v. 3.36.0
Issue/Bug Description:
In Pop OS>Activities>All apps>Utilities>right-click on Screenshot app>select Add to favorites>it opens the Pop!_shop app and takes me the GNOME Screenshot app download page.
Steps to reproduce (if you know):
Pop OS>Activities>All apps>Utilities>right-click on Screenshot app>select Add to favorites>it opens the Pop!_shop app and takes me the GNOME Screenshot app download page. This is not expected as I'm simply trying to add the app to my favorites list.
Expected behavior:
Users should be able to add Screenshot app to favorites list instead of taking them to the Pop!_Shop application page.
Other Notes:
Other apps I'm able to add/remove from favorites list. This app, I simply cannot. I appreciate any assistance.
The designs for COSMIC include a solid color background for the App Wall. Currently the background is the desktop wallpaper (darkened to aid separation from icons)
Hi! I know that Cosmic Shell has been developed based on research and user feedback. However, one thing that appears kind of odd to me about the design concept, is that both buttons, the one for the workspace overview and the one for the application launcher, exist two times on the desktop: One time in the top bar and one time in the bottom dock.
Is this based on the observation that some users expect these buttons to be in the dock and some expect them to be in the top bar? I haven't done any particular studies on this particular decision, but redundancy in user interfaces is known as a likely source of confusion and gives the impression of an unclear concept and therefore is often considered an anti-pattern. Having all functions everywhere might increase the number of users finding them on the first try, but on the long run, it will raise questions whether the buttons actually do the exact same thing and clutter up the interface. Instead, it's generally recommended to go for a "single source of truth" approach.
That's why I'd Instead suggest having the application launcher only in the dock and the workspace overview only in the top bar by default. This suggestion is based on the following arguments:
One thing that massively helps understanding a new user interface is the use of patterns that users might know and be familiar with. Some patterns are so widely adopted that they became a sort-of standard - think about scroll bars for example.
Many popular desktop environments have the application launcher accessible as a button in the dock and an overview of the opened windows in the top-left corner. This is true at least for MacOS, Ubuntu and KDE Plasma.
The application launcher being in the same bar/dock as the favourite and opened applications is even more common: This is the case for Windows, MacOS, Gnome (Ubuntu), Gnome (Vanilla), KDE Plasma, Unity, Android and many more, and therefore could be considered a sort-of-standard in my opinion.
No desktop environment I know besides Unity and Gnome 2, which both can be considered out of use, has the application launcher at the top-left corner, or even in the top bar.
At least for the application launcher, it also makes sense from a semantic standpoint to have it in the same place where favourite and opened applications are: That means that when the user wants to start an application, they know they're going to find it in the dock. The application launcher kind of gets the function of a "read more" button of a truncated application list, if that is understandable. There is no such argument for having the application launcher in the top bar.
The top bar however is the place from which tiling is controlled in PopOS. That kind of makes it the right place for a window management feature like the workspace overview, from a semantic standpoint.
I hope this issue somehow makes sense and does not repeat a discussion you already had internally when working out the design concept. The rest of the UI concept looks very sane and well-thought to me, I really look forward to see this being ready to use!
Also allow configuration to launch workspaces or applications
Will COSMIC Desktop ever be re-based to Gnome 40?
Platform: Virtual Box Virtual Machine
Environment: 21.04 Pop-OS! default installation
Upon install of Pop-OS 21.04 and having only selected English UK as my keyboard layout I noted two layouts had been installed English UK and Japanese Mocz.
I am not sure if this is a Pop installer, Ubuntu based or Cosmic issue. The impact is minimal as I was easily able to uninstall the Japanese keyboard layout through the usual means in the settings.
Applications view shows underneath windows in spread view
Using the buttons on the top bar click "Applications" then "Workspaces." The applications disappear but the windows aren't shown. Clicking "Workspaces" again will bring it back out of spread view as expected. Click "Workspaces" once more and the error is presented.
You can also trigger the issue using the super key after going through the first steps listed above. Replacing the last step with the windows key.
The issue doesn't happen using the icon in the bottom bar.
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Yes, I know these changes are due to the statistics about users installing docks. But that's perfectly normal activity.
I use dash to panel, and it's just fine. This is just extra, and the changes I've seen y'all make (for example, meta opening a text based launcher) is going to turn off a number of people I know who have been using your system.
Please, as a dock user, I'm begging you guys to end this project and start contributing to Gnome 40 instead.
Don't make 20.04 the "last good Pop OS version" because so many distros do exactly what you're doing. They get popular because of interest in a custom interface, then die almost instantly when the average user realizes how unnatural it is to use.
Even Gnome 3 gets it wrong: meta should open applications, and meta+a should show activities, especially since there's a literal "activities" button by default. (Which can be improved on with hot corner activation of activities).
The redundancy of access is throwing away common sense on the whole.
Take it from an artist: there's no shame in scrapping a project when it's clearly a vanity project.
Here's your sign.
Hello,
It would be nice to have a global menu installed by default. The one used on the screenshot is this one: https://github.com/gonzaarcr/Fildem
When exiting the applications view, the app grid shifts up for a split second (seems like it's due to the search bar going away first):
Entering and exiting the app grid is already a big visual transition due to the opaque background, so eliminating this extra movement when exiting would make this look nicer.
Please implement support for thumbnails in the file browser and a hibernation button in the power menu.
Based on my post from https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/nl091f
With the new Pop_OS coming out this June and after playing with the Cosmic desktop, there are two three main things I would like to see as an option:
Option to swap the order between Workspaces and Applications at the top left. By default, Workspaces is first, but some may be more familiar with Applications on the far left.
If a user disables the dock, it would be nice to automatically restore the dock to Applications like in standard Gnome and earlier versions of Pop. Maybe if the user had it at the bottom to keep it at the bottom of Applications. Same if the user had the dock before on the far left or right and now it is where it was before in Applications.
Easy way to make the dock 100% transparent.
If Night Light is enabled and once it gets active, give the option for the Light theme to change to the Dark theme. When Night Light turns off, restore Light theme.
I get an error when following this instructions https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic
do I have to change sources?
I get:
E: Unable to locate package pop-cosmic
E: Unable to locate package libpop-desktop-widget
As a follow up to #28 when you close the Application View(AV) using Esc AV closes but the Worksspace View activates.
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Open Application View using Super+A or any other means.
Hit Esc key.
Application View should close and return back to the desktop.
Super+A opens applications but doesn't close it if pressed again. Would be nice to have it mirrored now that Applications are split from workspaces.
Binding different hotkeys in different views might require some pretty big modifications to Gnome, but I think being able to look through my workspaces with my arrow keys (maybe also J and K?) while I'm in the workspaces overview. PgUp/PgDn currently do what I'm referring to though, so maybe that's good enough?
Add to the Utilities folder and set as favorites.
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When the dash is set to auto hide there are applications that cause it to appear when they gain focus but not consistently.
Applications affected:
Not sure if we would rather it stay hidden or appear on every focus change, but at the moment the action is not ideal.
By default there is no option to change the transparency settings for the dock so it would be great to be able to change that and also possibly the transparency of the top bar as default gnome does not allow that, which is quiet a bummer as many people opt to have a more translucent dock/top panel to go along with their styling. Also an option to make the dock change transparency dynamically just like the default behaviour of dash to dock would be a great addition!
This issue only happens the first time you turn off either applications or workspaces subsequent toggling doesn't trigger the event.
Shouldn't show up anywhere.
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