whimfoome / better_dexp

Tired of having the best feeling DE with the worst defaults? This app is for you.

Better GNOME Desktop Experience

Tired of having the best feeling DE with the worst defaults? This app is for you. Transform the default GNOME look to:

• Theme
  • Adwaita Dark
  • Minimize Button
  • Disabled Hot Corner
  • Disabled Mouse Acceleration
• Extensions
  • Dash to Panel
  • ArcMenu
  • Desktop Icons NG
  • Tray Icons Reloaded
  • Tiling Assistant
  • With sensible defaults
• Other things I do with my Arch Setup

You need

• gtk4 support?
• gnome-shell
• gnome-menus* (for ArcMenu to work)
• wget

How To Use

• Download the .AppImage from Releases
• Allow Execution and Open
• Click Better Theme and Install Extensions. You will be asked to Log Out, do it (this will close all your running apps!)
• Open the app again and click Apply Extensions Configs

How to Build

• You need Rust installed, recomended from RustUp
• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/Whimfoome/better_dexp.git && cd better_dexp
• cargo build --release

Build with AppImage

• You need AppImageKit (yay -S appimagetool-bin)
• You need Cargo-AppImage (cargo install cargo-appimage)
• To build it, just run cargo appimage in the project directory

Credits

• Thanks to this script by cyfrost, I found out how to build the download link for extensions properly :)
• Icon App from Reversal Icon Theme, exact name - gnome-panel-launcher