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[FEATURE REQUEST] Use Forge instead of Pop Shell in GNOME Edition #52

Open amethystgosling opened 1 month ago

amethystgosling commented 1 month ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Forge is a much more powerful tiling extension with more customization and keyboard shortcuts. Although it is a long time from now, Pop Shell will probably be unmaintained in the future sometime after the first stable release of System76's Cosmic Desktop so I think it would be a good idea to move to this extension instead.

Describe the solution you'd like Replace Pop Shell with the Forge Fedora package or package it in Terra and have it enabled by default.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context The breadth of options in Forge preferences:

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nothingneko commented 1 month ago

Does this have a launcher? If not any suggestion to replace it?

amethystgosling commented 1 month ago

Does this have a launcher? If not any suggestion to replace it?

It doesn't but there is Search Light. It uses the GNOME Shell search which is much more powerful and easier to use. It's not available in the Fedora repos though so you'll have to maintain a package for it.

Edit: Despite what it says on Search Light GitHub page, the latest stable version of the extension works on GNOME 46.