Always-Show-Titles-In-Overview
This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.
Why I write this extention
Please read this post(Gnome 3.26: How to get the window titles in the activities view back?) and this comment below Gnome Bugzilla - Window picker layout improvements.
Features
| Features | Default Setting |
|---|---|
| Always show titles of all window thumbnails | - |
| Always show close buttons of all window thumbnails | off |
| Window titles position (Bottom, Center) | Bottom |
| Move window titles to the bottom when fullscreen | on |
| Move window titles to the bottom for video/TV players, like SMPlayer | on |
| Show app icons | on |
| App icon position (Bottom, Center) | Bottom |
| Hide icons when fullscreen | on |
| Hide icons for Video/TV players, like SMPlayer | on |
| Tweak the window thumbnail active size increment (from 5 to 60) | 15 |
| Hide the background | off |
Gnome versions
| Gnome version | Branch | Is default branch? |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome 40 to 44 | gnome-40-44 | No |
| Gnome 45+ | gnome-45+ | Yes |
Settings
This extension has a Settings now, which makes it more useful:
TODO
- [x] Remove the fade time when leave a window
- [x] Find a way to distinguish the selected window and the others. 1. Maybe I can find a way to increase the light of the highlight around the selected window. 2. Or I can find a way to reverse the color of the title and it's background of the highlight around the selected window. (Gnome-shell has this feature now by larging thumbnail when the cursor hovers over it.)
- [x] Be compatible with GNOME Shell v3.36
- [x] Wine-based application's window has no close button. Remove 'if (this._windowCanClose())' can fix this issue, but I don't know if it's a good idea. I see that Wine application has close button now.
- [x] Add Preferences for this extension for setting show or hide app's icon, changing title's position