A major redesign of the GNOME extensions is in the works.
As the recent redesign of Flathub demonstrated, big tech corporations like Google, Apple, and Microsoft maintain attractive storefronts for software and extensions. Good design is intelligent design, no matter who does it.
GNOME extensions provide a quick and easy way to load new functions, behaviors, and visual settings into the GNOME Shell. Extensions. gnome. org (EGO) is the best location to locate and install them. 1
But a redesign is needed.
If you visit the online GNOME Extensions page today, you’ll see the same list-based layout that you would have noticed if you had visited the page in 2012: a vertical list of available extensions, features to override order/sorting, and a search field . .
There is nothing inherent to the design as it is. It is a nice, functional and simple directory of available extensions. It does everything you want.
But he doesn’t do everything he can do.
That’s why I’m excited to hear that a really extensive redesign of the GNOME Extensions online page is underway. The redesign introduces a completely new layout to notice, search, and modernize the look and feel of plugin pages.
I noticed the following tweaks in the new design (which is now available for verification on a “live” verification site hosted on the GNOME infrastructure):
Promising things, even if this redesign is temporary. It is a painting in progress. The fundamental skeleton you see in those screenshots will be developed, refined, and a few extra features added to it before release.
Some screenshots:-
Read the screenshots (or create the interim edition) and be sure to find style quirks, damaged features, and missing details. Listing pages, for example, doesn’t ultimately imply support for GNOME editing, external links, or demo comments.
So, for emphasis: don’t do what you see in this article as a done deal.
But we all glimpse it, right?
If this revision were to become a reality, it would go a long way in strengthening the GNOME extensions ecosystem. Making it less difficult for users to notice more productive GNOME extensions is a win for users, extension developers, and GNOME as a desktop.
Showcasing the eclectic diversity of extensions can help spark users’ imaginations about what they can do, leading them to create their own or care about helping existing ones.
Everything is interconnected: today’s GNOME user can be tomorrow’s GNOME contributor.