There is more than one way you can to this, but basically you either make a
link to a .desktop file, the files used to launch graphical applications, or
copy the file it self from /usr/share/applications to your desktop.
You can even sym link directly to an executable.
I think what Kendell was saying was that you can't easily customize gnome's top
bar, although there are a few things availble to add I think.
There is a lot that can not be customized with gnome however, and that is
certainly one of its weaknesses.
Putting icons on the deskto pis not an issue however.
The thing is, people probalby miss the old menu item that gave you a couple of
fields to fill in to put a launcher on the deaktop or panel of your
choice.
Also, in gnome you cn't go adding panels like you can in mate, or xfce. Too bad
xfce panels are not accessible.
I think it's a bit better than maate for sighted folk, and would be for us if
those panels would start talking...lol
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Christopher Chaltain wrote:
Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:03:26PM -0500
> Are you sure you can't add your own desktop items? I don't recall how I did
> it, but I have a few desktop icons that I know I created myself in Gnome 3.
>
> I also don't have any problem removing a drive. I just find the icon for the
> drive on the desktop, hit the applications key and then arrow down to eject.
>
> On 01/04/16 08:41, kendell clark wrote:
> >hi
> >Being objective is a little difficult, since I've switched back to mate,
> >but i'll give it a shot. Hear goes.
> >Gnome is great if you don't want to have a customized panel with
> >different applets on it. The gnome panel is set and can't be changed
> >easily. It requires an extension or gsettings keys to do so.
> >
> >As a resultt, once you learn where everything is it won't ever change.
> >This is an advantage if you just want to run your apps and not have to
> >go looking for stuff on the panel. On the other hand, gnome has taken
> >out a lot of functionality that mate, being a fork of gnome 2 before all
> >this stuff was removed, has. In gnome, you can't select a different
> >sound theme than the default except by using gsettings.
> >
> >You can't create your own desktop icons, and removing a drive through
> >the gui is buried in nautilus. Whether you care about this stuff mostly
> >depends on what you do with your computer. Mate is much lighter on
> >resources, which won't matter unless you have a computer that gnome
> >doesn't run well on. On the other hand, mate's panels can be very odd
> >with orca, sometimes getting stuck and requiring a reset of orca or the
> >panel to fix things.
> >
> >Mate is a lot more configurable, but has the disadvantage of not being
> >able to run apps as root accessibly. At least for now. This is being
> >worked on right now and should be fixed shortly. Mate has a nice menu
> >system, with apps organized into categories. Sound and video, office,
> >etc. You can't search for apps like you can in gnome, to find them you
> >have to use the menus or add them to the desktop.
> >
> >You can of course create keyboard shortcuts to launch them and so on. I
> >can't tell you which is better because each one is preferred by
> >different people. But mate tends to be better on computers that don't
> >have a lot of power or memory. Gnome has more desktop effects and can
> >search, but has a lot of the more advanced functionality removed. It's
> >really up to you, in the end.
> >Thanks
> >Kendell Clark
> >
> >
> >Daniel Crone wrote:
> >>Hello. I am curious about the advantages of gnome shell over mate, or vice
> >>versa.
> >>What do you think?
> >
> >
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