It doesn’t do any crazy ricing, as I mostly focused on usability tweaks and automatic installation of my must-have extensions. (Tiling, clipboard manager, dash to dock, desktop icons)

Most notable tweaks include:

  • clicking on a running app minimizes it
  • clicking on a group of apps brings up their previews
  • adds minimize, maximize buttons to windows
  • installs flatpak, adds flathub
  • install flatpak and snap plugins into gnome-software (doesn’t work on Fedora)
  • installs snap
  • installs mtp-tools and gvfs-backends on Debian to be able to transfer files from a connected phone
  • adds right click > New File
  • Super + Shift + S brings up the area screenshot
  • Super + E opens the file manager
  • Ctrl + Alt + T opens the terminal

(Those already configured on Ubuntu don’t get configured again, obviously.)

I also recorded a short showcase to prove that it works without errors https://youtu.be/xf739ivb9hg

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    I added sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-snap gnome-software-plugin-flatpak gnome-software Looks like Fedora does not have gnome-software-plugin-snap or gnome-software-plugin-flatpak in its repos.

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      On Fedora is is likely just named differently ;) it for sure has at least Flatpak support.

      Background is that flatpak is used directly, not through packagekit.

      Have a look at packages.fedoraproject.org

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        I checked and Fedora dropped support for the snap plugin. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/enable-snap-in-gnome-software/76134

        These are also the only packages related to gnome-software:

        Related Packages
        
            gnome-software-devel
            gnome-software-fedora-langpacks
            gnome-software-rpm-ostree
        

        From what I remember, their gnome-software already has flatpak support. So all that will be missing is the GUI snap support. Could’ve been worse.

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          Interesting, thanks for the research!

          Snaps are unsandboxed on Systems without AppArmor so they are not a useful cross platform technology anyways.

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            12 days ago

            Yeah, that sucks. I would still want it if I were to use Fedora, as an option.

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              Yup but people dont care to maintain it. It was barely maintained for a longer time