The Frequent apps grid has a few problems:
* On a fresh install there would be no history of app usage so the
applications shown in the grid have no relevance it takes time
to be useful instead of being useful from the start;
* The grid has far too many items in it to be relevant; 24 apps is
well beyond the average use case as most people don't frequently
use that many, so it gets populated with several apps that are
single use (hello xterm);
* The position of items in the grid are always changing based on an
unknown frequency metric (and not by user-intended input) which
makes it a poor way to quickly launch apps as one would have to
constantly learn the positions of the items in the grid;
* Having two app grids is a bit superfluous and needlessly complicates
the app launching navigation: you have to spend time checking the
frequent grid and if it's not there you have to switch over to another
grid and find the app you need in there it's not straightforward.
Remove the Frequent tab and simplify the related code.
Related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1425https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/880
With color picking implemented in the compositor, we
can do better than letting the user pick a pixel with
the crosshair cursor, and present them with a preview
of the color that will be selected.
Do this by replacing the cursor with a custom icon and
apply a recoloring effect, where we replace a given color
with the color of the currently hovered pixel (similar
to a green screen).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/451
Replace the usage of IconGrid in the grid search results by
a custom layout manager that only allocates as many children
as the actor can fit.
This new layout manager does not implement changing the icon
size depending on the screen size.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1265
Use a brighter color and increase the contrast of the selected/active
items in the switcher popup.
Since a bright color doesn't go well with a box-shadow, remove that
shadow, an effect like should only be used for elements clicked with a
mouse anyway.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1135
Commit 6c6c89c634 added a pill around the default avatar, but
assumed the sizes from the vertical widget used on the lock screen.
In order to fix the horizontal widget on the login screen, move the
size-specific bits to the corresponding .horizontal and .vertical
sections, and half the sizes for the former (which corelates with
the icon sizes).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2242
Since quite a few strings of dialogs provided by external programs are
not updated yet and the string freeze is already in effect, make sure we
don't break those dialogs by stripping aways large parts of the
headline.
To do that, detect if the title label is larger than the available width
and if it is, switch to a smaller font-size of 13pt. This makes sure we
still show about the same number of characters in the headline as we did
in previous releases.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/1012
Currently separators get all the padding from regular menu items,
which is excessive for non-interactive elements.
Shuffle style classes around a bit to allow overriding the normal
padding for separators.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/1004
Instead of alphabetical ordering, sort the widget stylesheets
from more global to more local while grouping related things.
This helps reduce unintended behaviors and ugly overrides and
make styling and debugging easier.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/938
Allow vertical orientation for the userWidget so that the user-avatar
can be centered and user's name can be placed below it. The plan
for 3.36 is to use this vertical userWidget layout for both lock
and login screen.
The userWidget is also used while creating the user-selection list
at the login, hence we still need to keep the horizontal layout
for userWidget in place.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/922
