Vertical workspaces are another defining characteristics of GNOME 3,
and thus rather un-classic. That switch was driven by the overall
layout of the overview, and now that we disable the overview in
GNOME Classic, we can just return to the traditional workspace
layout as well.
Add a small extension that does just that.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/merge_requests/72
There are plenty of extension examples out there, no need to include
a sample extension that doesn't show-case any useful functionality
but puts additional burden on distributors to exclude it from packaged
extensions.
Ever since GNOME 3.8 when gnome-shell started to provide the window
switcher functionality itself, the extension has only existed to
change the default behavior of the alt-tab shortcut in the classic
session. Now that we achieve this behavior with a per-desktop override,
there's no longer a need for the extension, so remove it altogether.
Users who prefer the window switcher over the default app switcher
can use the regular keyboard settings to assign a shortcut to the
"Switch windows" action.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786496
Per-desktop overrides aren't limited to keys in org.gnome.mutter, so
we can use them instead of the alternate-tab extension to default to
the window switcher in the classic session.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786496
Meson has a strict separation of source- and build directory, and
expects anything generated in the latter. That means that in order
to maintain our current setup - shipping the generated CSS in the
repo while also optionally updating it automatically when sassc is
found - we have to fight the build system to some extent, which makes
it less reliable than we would like.
Since we switched to sassc which is a more acceptable build-time
dependency than the original ruby-based tool, just drop the CSS
from the repo and unconditionally generate it from SASS if classic
mode is enabled.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/merge_requests/28
Florian Müllner