Rocketbar

Key Features

• Taskbar

  • Optimized for best performance
  • Doesn't hurt CPU and Shell on every mouse click
  • Highly customizable
  • Dominant color support for app buttons and indicators
  • Optimized to work with a fully transparent panel
  • Supports both top and bottom positions of the Main panel
  • Per app customization feature
  • Drag and Drop support to reorder existing and pin new apps in the taskbar
  • Displaying of notification badges on top of app buttons
  • Tooltips with additional information such as windows count and notification count
  • Set focus on urgent windows of an active application automatically (Fixes 'Open Folder' dialog in VS Code and so on)

• Shell Tweaks

  • Dash killing feature to hide the Dash and prevent it from rendering behind the scene
  • Scroll the Main panel to change sound volume and middle click to toggle mute
  • Activities button click behavior override
  • Overview empty space clicks support
  • Fullscreen Hot Corner

Note: to get additional customization options for the GNOME Shell I would suggest to use Just Perfection extension.

Demonstration

• Taskbar on top

• Taskbar on bottom

Per app customization options

• Right click on an app button to open a context menu
• Find Customize section
• Change options or reset current customizations
  • Activitation Behavior
    • New Window - if an app is displaying as not running for the current workspace, create a new window of the app on the workspace
    • Move Windows - if app is running on another workspace, move windows of the app to the current one. Can be useful for apps that don't support creating of new windows, such as GitHub Desktop and etc.
  • Icon Size
    • Allows to change the icon size a bit when app icon looks smaller/bigger than others

Get the latest official release

Manual installation steps to get the latest and greatest version

• open Terminal and run the following commands:

  git clone https://github.com/linux-is-awesome/gnome_extension_rocketbar
  cd ./gnome_extension_rocketbar
  OPTIONAL: to get the latest UNSTABLE version type: git checkout develop
  ./install

• push Alt + F2 and type 'r'

• go to Extensions and enable Rocketbar there

Special thanks to

• Gnome 45 support by @laurentlbm

Translations

• French by @celestomm
• Dutch by @Vistaus

To create a new translation:

• open Terminal and run the following commands:

  git clone https://github.com/linux-is-awesome/gnome_extension_rocketbar
  cd ./gnome_extension_rocketbar
  git branch translation_<locale> (translation_en, translation_es, translation_ru and so on...)
  git checkout <name of the translation branch>
  ./create-translation <locale>

• A new .po file will be created under the extension/locales folder
• Go to the file, translate text strings
• Commit your changes and publish the branch
• Create a pull request to the 'develop' branch

Credits

App Icons Taskbar | Dash to Dock | Overview Clicking | Volume Scroller | Fullscreen Hot Corner | Just Perfection