gnome-shell/data
Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 548e19a7cd appDisplay: Remove Frequent view
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/1425

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/880
2020-05-27 21:06:36 +00:00
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cldr2json
dbus-interfaces
icons
osk-layouts
theme appDisplay: Remove Frequent view 2020-05-27 21:06:36 +00:00
00_org.gnome.shell.gschema.override
50-gnome-shell-system.xml
emoji.json
gnome-shell-dbus-interfaces.gresource.xml
gnome-shell-disable-extensions.service
gnome-shell-osk-layouts.gresource.xml
gnome-shell-overrides-migration.desktop.in
gnome-shell-overrides.convert
gnome-shell-theme.gresource.xml
gnome-shell-wayland.service.in
gnome-shell-wayland.target
gnome-shell-x11.service.in
gnome-shell-x11.target
gnome-shell.portal
meson.build
org.gnome.Shell.desktop.in.in
org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.desktop.in.in
org.gnome.shell.gschema.xml.in
org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.desktop.in.in
org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.service.in
perf-background.xml.in
README.osk-layouts
update-osk-layouts.sh

Gnome-shell OSK layouts are extracted from CLDR layout definitions:
https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/keyboards/layouts/index.html

Updating these involves several steps:

1) Downloading and unzipping the tarball found at:
   http://www.unicode.org/Public/cldr/latest/keyboards.zip

   This file contains XML files describing the keyboard layouts.

2) Cloning the cldr2json script at:
   git://repo.or.cz/cldr2json.git

   It will be used to convert the XML files into JSON that can be
   directly consumed by gnome-shell.

3) Running the script to produce the files:
   ./cldr2json <input-directory> <output-directory>

   We shall usually use the "android" folder, since that's most
   complete, and similar to our UI and target sizes. And the target
   directory must be data/osk-layouts in this repository.

4) Modify gnome-shell-osk-layouts.gresource.xml to include the files

5) Do git add on the updated/new files, and git commit.


Or alternatively:

1) Run update-osk-layouts.sh

2) Do git add and git commit