HI there. I am running Garuda on my real machine as my only OS. I went all in when I saw the btrfs integration. The gnome implementation looks different than other gnome implementations I have seen (essentially Manjaro & PopOS).
I can't move the location of the favorites bar ?
I never see the application picker/launcher ? In other versions of gnome the last icon in the favorites bar opens up all applications in a window centered on the display.
I just can't seem to find the gnome tweaks I am used to - am I missing something ?
To enable gnome tweaks if it's not installed on your computer by default should be available from the software store by searching for it. Then you can install extensions from there. Bare in mind in an extremely short amount of time, a huge amount of things will change on GNOME as 40 is very close to release to the masses and everything you do today probably won't work after.
If you are a Gnome user, I suppose you should have realised Gnome is focused on keyboard control, not point-and-click (mouse) control.
What happens if you press WinKey on keyboard?
Hi ! I was actually trying to put in on the left but you led me to the solution. I had to go into the settings for Dash to Dock (Tweaks -> Extensions -> Gear Icon of Dash to dock ). From there I can change the position and size and then in the Launchers section - "Show Applications Icon".
And the Unite extension settings need to "show system tray in top bar" ... not set by default. Not sure why that this is the preference of the community.
It’s not about community preference, every maintainer designs the DE first according to the available possibilities of his DE. Then according to his preferences and maybe he responds to user requests.
The beauty of Linux is that anyone can make changes if they want it to be different.
Remember, 100 people have 100 preferences. That means you can never please everyone.