Dash to Panel for CONSTRUCT

This is CONSTRUCT's fork of Dash to Panel, the GNOME Shell extension that turns the dash into a taskbar panel. The gnome-51 branch follows upstream master and runs on GNOME Shell 51 only: the code paths for older shells are removed.

Changes from upstream

• A drag that crosses the panel (a browser tab, a text selection, a file) no longer opens the overview; dropping onto a taskbar icon still raises that app's window. (upstream #2087, #2407)
• The intellihide shortcut (<Super>i) is grabbed only while intellihide is enabled, so other applications receive it otherwise. (#2416)
• The long press inherited from GNOME Shell's AppIcon opens the icon menu for touch only; a slightly long left click activates the app again. (#2561)
• A notification badge clears even when the update arrives after the app's last window is gone. (#2560)
• panelManager.js and stripe.png lost their executable bit. (#2433)
• No "Dash to Panel has been updated" notification: the image updates the extension, and enabling it writes no version key.
• Escape in the overview, opened from the show-apps button, returns to the desktop again: GNOME Shell 51 delivers the key through its stage KeyController, not an event.
• The About page shows the packaged version without an upstream release link, points its source link and metadata.json at this fork, and drops the sponsor logo and donation entry.
• GNOME Shell 51 only: version checks, feature probes and fallbacks for older shells are gone, as are upstream's CI, design media, donation images, Node lint tooling and the extensions.gnome.org zip target.

Installation

CONSTRUCT builds it with the gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel recipe in CONSTRUCT's build repository, which runs:

make install DESTDIR=<destdir> VERSION=<version>

With DESTDIR, the extension goes to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-panel@jderose9.github.com, the GSettings schema to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas (compiled with the image) and the translations to /usr/share/locale. Without DESTDIR, make install installs into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions with a compiled schema. Building needs make, glib-compile-schemas and msgfmt. make potfile and make mergepo refresh the translation template and catalogs.

Credits

Dash to Panel is developed and maintained by @jderose9 and @charlesg99, with many contributors and translators listed in the upstream README. It builds on ZorinOS Taskbar, Dash to Dock, bottompanel, Frippery Move Clock and StatusAreaHorizontalSpacing.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later; see COPYING.