@Favo02 Huge respect for active improvement of one of THE BEST and ESSENTIAL extensions for GNOME.

I stuck a bit. Likely I'm just being stoopid idk.

Expected behavior: border for active workspace is kept and now can be controlled only through stylesheet.css (I don't need to configure workspace bottom border color through anything but css)
Actual behavior: I stop seeing any border at all

In following commit I remove workspace style (style: css_inline_workspace) and I expect to see bottom border anyways because css selector .wboa-workspace.wboa-active has border-bottom: 2px solid #99c1f1;
Commit that causes workspace border to disappear
ybda@66d7835

Moreover, I made a very similar change but for app icons and it does work just fine, as I expect it
ybda@489d751

Note:
I tried the same change on your repo, not in my fork. The results are the same.

An option to hide empty workspaces might remove some clutter when a fixed number of workspaces is activated instead of dynamic workspaces and show workspace index is enabled.

Hi,

Thank you so much for making such a wonderful extension!
I wanted to ask and maybe report a bug where you have in my case 2 ghost app icons in the all section. I have renamed mine to just A.
Here is a screenshot:

I can confirm I don't have any windows that are invisible from some other applications (this is a new install)

The behavior of those icons is a bit weird:
If you have a window selected when you click the icons nothing happens (then don't get selected)
If you are on an empty workspace and you have no window selected then you can click the icons and switch between them but nothing actually happens. No windows pop up etc,

And again thank you for making this :)

on the top left there is an 'ALL' label that goes away when I disable the desktop icons ng (DING) extension. turning off this extension removes all the icons including the 'ALL' text.

hi,
i use dash to panel as my desktop's shell's panel, like most of the time i use my laptop, i have a small screen for my work, so better to keep strict and necessary info only , had hopefully your great extension helped a lot to solve the space problem by merging in a clever way taskbar and active workspace indication, which are generally my main information when it come to check my panel, that great,
but it looks like there is a lake of customization options when it came to icons appearance, such as icons size, margin and padding, mostly for the icon's size.

is it possible to add some options relative to icons appearance?

thanks.

First of all, thank you for creating this great extension. It has significantly improved my workflow.
After updating my fedora , the "Inverse Scroll" behavior has stopped working. This feature was functioning correctly before the update.
And also he extension interface on my bar appears less sharp and somewhat "dirty" compared to the previous version.

System Information:
OS: fedora 40
GNOME Version: 46 wayland
Extension Version: 18

I have tried disabling and re-enabling the extension, as well as restarting GNOME Shell, but the issue persists.

As you can see from the above screencast (sorry for bad resolution) the workspace name changes position when hovering the app icon.

This only seems to happen when only one application is active on a workspace and not when two or more application icons are displayed.

Currently clicking on an application will focus its workspace, but not the clicked application

Yeah, basically the basic Workspace Indicator from gnome can do this. Alternatively anyone can use Top Panel Workspace Scroll to do this across the entire topbar. I can't because I use that action to scroll volume with Volume Scroller.

Thanks for your time dveloping this extension. Cheers!

Hi, I discovered this extension recently, and it's the best virtual desktop manager I've ever seen. I'm using it on some of my computers already, however, some of my older installs use Gnome-shell versions as old as 40. I was wondering, then: would it be possible to add support for older Gnome-shell versions (ideally as far back as 40)? If it's not too much trouble I mean. I thank you in advance for taking the time to think about this. And thank you for such a useful extension. Regards, Max.

Hi again :D

Thank you so much for such a useful and now essential extension. Thanks for improving the Gnome experience. Really appreciated. Also for the recent update, I was the one who reported the issue to the Open Bar developer. Glad to see things improving so fast.

Currently using custom CSS and got the idea to swap the indicator of current workspace to the top and the current app to the bottom. Unfortunately I can't do it myself as I know jack about JS or programming in general. I can barely do some customization thru editing the CSS files but I know to swap the indicators would only be possible to do it changing the source code which is something beyond me...

Thank you so much for the time and effort put in this useful extension! have a wonderful day and cheers!!

Add an indicator to show current focused app.

It would be great if you could add the feature which allows us to name different workspaces as we wish. For example: Space 1, Space 2, Space 3.
Many thanks in advance.

Display in a separate workspace applications on displays with no workspaces support

Feature request from GNOME extensions store review:

Double click to minimize window. Add setting to turn on/off this feature.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start the extension
2. Open Settings on GNOME
3. Open the hamburger menu, on the upper right corner
4. A popover appears and you can see two "Settings" icons in the panel instead of just one

Same procedure for any other app with a popover menu. I also encountered the same issue with Firefox's right click context menu and the tooltip box when the cursor is hovering on tabs

Hi,
I recently discovered this amazing extension on my tablet, thank you for making it.
There is one reason I currently combine it with another workspace indicator extension though: clicking with my finger on a workspace/application does not work. I can click with my pen and mouse, but they are not always conveniently at hand. So I'd love to see this getting support.

Discussed in #56

Hi,
thanks again for this very useful extension. I've been using it and it's a life changer. I have a few comments on potential improvements though. For now, the biggest problem I'm facing is that the visualization on the taskbar (I'm using Dash to Pannel), can get really big (wide) and eat a lot of taskbar space, depending on the number of desktops and open windows.

I know changing the behavior of the extension radically might not be easy, but just in case there is something you could improve, here are a few ideas to make it easier to deal with a big number of desktops or windows. It will be very convenient to have options to set one or more of these behaviors:

1. Limit the horizontal size the visualization can use, and use scroll bars (maybe one per desktop, or a single one for everything).
2. Group similar windows (say Firefox windows) into a single icon, like taskbars can typically do with taskbar buttons.
3. Make the widget a small preview (maybe showing the number of desktops, but no app details yet), then when clicked a full menu could be shown, as a pop-up, like a start menu of sorts (think arcMenu). The desktops could be each on a row, displaying the list of apps like the widget does now, and stacked on top of each other). This will resemble a window-list more than a desktop switcher, but it can get the same job done, with one more click, and without eating so much taskbar space sometimes.
4. Create a separate panel for the desktop switcher, something that can be, say hidden on the side of the screen and displayed when the mouse hovers nearby.
   In any case, the widget is very useful, and I use it most of the time. Only when I'm working on projects with too many windows (say, dozens of Python plot screens) that I temporarily switch to a more traditional desktop management widget (like workspace indicator).
   Thanks for taking the time to look into this.
   Cheers.
   Max.

Add setting to limit max number of apps for workspace, hide the extra ones and add a ... or + icon.

Running Ubuntu 22.

The active workspace always shows a generic window/desktop icon. When viewing the log, it shows as window:x where "x" is an incrementing number that increases each time the system sleeps and wakes up.

Adding it to the ignore list removes it, until the number increments again. Not sure what is causing it to display in the first place, but would be neat if the ignore list could take a regex like /window/i

Minor issue overall and great extension!

GNOME broke (once again) the inertia on its product and requires all extensions to comply with the new import system: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/

We have an option now to use custom accent colors for the shell, would be nice if the underline indicating the focus would use the currently picked accent color.

Refresh icons of workspace on application open or close.
Switching workspace is needed to refresh icons.

First, thank you for your work, it is very useful. 🙂

There are extensions that let you scroll the panel to switch workspace like panel scroll and Panel Workspace Scroll. This extension's scrolling conflicts with them: if both are enabled, you skip 2 workspaces at once.

I suggest adding an option to disable scrolling. If a user is using another panel scroll extension, they could disable scrolling for this extension to avoid conflict.

As you can see in above screenshot, the workspace name (indexes in this case) is not vertically centered (or is the hover background positioning wrong?)

Monochrome

Is da best!

Look at it @_@

Dear dev,

• Can you remove system app with id something like: window:17, window:525, .... window:*
• I want to suggest a new feature is: when i hover mouse to specific workspace so i can scroll middle mouse to change the focus of app in this workspace.
  Best Regards.

When a window tooltip, popover or dialog is rendered, the window is not displayed as focused.

Hi Luca, thanks for the update. Unforutnatelly, version 9 didn't worked on my system. I'm using Alma 9, which comes with Gnome 40. The error on my system was this

Stack trace:
  @/home/user_name/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:1:32
  _init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:216:33
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:128:33
  asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
  run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
  main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
  run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
  start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
  @/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

I made sure all the awd packages available for my system were installed, and still same problem.
For the time beein I went back to version 8. Not a problem, but it will be nice to have the new features working.
Thanks again for this wonderful extension, and your hard work.
Cheers.
Max.

Originally posted by @maxborn in #47 (comment)

-Can't open the settings for the extension so you got your first bug right there.

-Shows up always to the left. Doesn't like to be re-organized by Top Bar Organizer which is the OG extension to order all your topbar extensions.

Gnome 43.4
Manjaro

When activating the "Hide empty workspaces" setting the extension gets moved around on panel on refresh.

Thanks to @Tsagae for reporting the bug.

Been a user since day one and loved every improvement along the way, specially when they were my suggestions 😄 but I've had this problem when using both Workspace Indicator and this extension. I think Workspaces by open apps piggy backs on Workspace Indicator as I did some CSS changes to Workspace Indicator to fit a thin panel bar with better colors and this is the result:

But when I enable Workspaces by open apps it distorts Workspace Indicator like so:

And I don't know why. I don't think its supposed to happen but I guess the extension is using workspace indicator in a way it interferes.

Lastly we have an option in the extension to enable round indicator borders but the result looks sharp, not round. Not looking nice with the Gnome 'round' aesthetic. Barely better than the default 'square' bars.
I've been trying to make them round but I barely know CSS so here I am.

Thank you so much for the time and effort put in this awesome and useful extension. Hopefully we see more improvements along the way. Have a great day!

Using Fedora 38, Gnome 44

After updating to the last version, I'm getting ab error when I try to open configuration,
the extensions seems to start but not "honoring" configuration.

I'm copying the details that the config shows, any other thing I can inform you please let
me know.

Thanks in advance.
Tonio

Here the details:

The settings of extension [email protected] had an error:

Error: Wrong type number; string expected

Stack trace:

_init/Gtk.Widget.prototype._init@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gtk.js:55:50
about_page@/home/tonioc/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:488:12
fillPreferencesWindow@/home/tonioc/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:68:13
_init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:27:29
ExtensionPrefsDialog@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:10:4
OpenExtensionPrefsAsync@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:124:33
async*_handleMethodCall@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:373:35
_wrapJSObject/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:408:34
run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:186:20
main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:22:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

On workspace rename, the new name is visualized only after a workspace switch.

Add setting to hide default GNOME activities button (in GNOME 45 a workspace indicator)

A way to distinguish opened apps from minimized apps would be useful. My idea was to make minimized apps appear slightly more transparent, but that is already reserved for non-focused icons.