On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 at 08:58:54 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
I like the aesthetics of having only a single page of apps in our default install. It helps to highlight how we have trimmed the list of default apps for trixie compared to bookworm. But this new app folder now pushes one app to the second page.
As of today, this is no longer the case, at least in a VM: https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/1099579/before.png (but if any single app gets added to a default installation, it will tip us over the edge into having a second page again). I continue to be baffled by the logic of Shell's sorting order for apps, but if we're emphasizing the search-based UI then the order hardly matters anyway.
Personally, I would rather not have Calendar pinned. There is already a quick shortcut (although I guess it's a hidden feature) by opening the GNOME Shell calendar menu and clicking Today. Having email as a pinned app was something that Windows XP did and I think it makes a lot of sense. I think it is also nice how the Evolution shortcut disappears if you don't have Evolution installed (it's part of gnome, not gnome-core).
Yeah, that seems reasonable. Kept Evolution as our replacement for Calendar.
I agree on removing Rhythmbox
Done
and LibreOffice Writer. I have previously been confused looking around for Writer in the app grid because pinned apps don't show in the app grid.
A good point! Done
I suggest we patch GNOME Shell to move Input Method (from im-config) to the System folder. It's a utility that many people won't need to use or only need to use once.
I did this in experimental to see what it looks like, but I'm a little bit conflicted about it: for users of locales that are not comprehensively supported by libgnome-desktop, this is going to make it harder to discover a tool that they need to run as early as possible after installing. On the other hand, this is a rather technical and confusing tool which I'd hope we don't usually have to inflict on new users anyway, so...
I guess having Text Editor and Calculator pinned is ok. I believe that would leave us with one empty spot in our app grid which is nice.
Actually we now have two spots free: https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/1099579/after.png (this is with 48.2-2) This reduces to one spot free if we don't divert im-config into System. smcv
