GNOME shell app picker design refresh

Status: Complete

Description

The GNOME shell overview prominently features an application picker. The current implementation presents icons in a scrolling grid. The new design will change it to be paged, and to have various other changes and improvements to make the picker more pleasant and touch-friendly.

Owner

Florian Muellner and his SoC student, Carlos Soriano

Involved Parties

Jakub Steiner for the design

Current Status

The new design is being implemented as a GSoC project. Review of the branch is happening in 706081. It has been included it in the 3.9.91 release.

TODO with priority

• Key navigation DONE
• RTL language DONE

• Pan action in FolderView DONE

• Focus loose on folder views between openings DONE
• Checked issue of folder icon when quick open and close
• Shadow of the folder icon background too hard = reduce opacity and a little more large shadow
• Indicators fade in/out DONE
• Animation when clicking 9-dots icon at dash
• More spacing between icons inside folder icons
• Glow round corner has to match icon on hover roudn corners.

How you can help

Reach out to Florian or Carlos