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