dash-to-panel

Take a look at dash to panel gnome extension: https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel It's a very configurable extension for gnome that can do all you described except double stacking... I've uploaded a video demo and a config file that makes it kinda like what you want, again no double stacking: https://github.com/amlib/dash-to-panel-config/tree/main You can also configure it to keep open window buttons separate from the launcher icons, but with the lack of double stacking I rather have it "take over" the launcher. The way I've set it up it will also only show the open windows for the virtual desktop or screen the bar being shown at, which helps alleviate the crowding issue of only having one row.

Same here, only with Dash to Panel. But man - I have so many workarounds for standard functionality GNOME either breaks or refuses to implement. A symlink in place of /usr/bin/gnome-terminal, patch sets for GTK 3, custom scripts to work around that you can't configure the screenshot folder... https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel

The thing is, you can change a lot of those things to match what you want. You can toggle the application menu, which works more like the windows menu. You can use something like dash-to-panel [0] to make the top bar into something useful. I know that in Firefox you can disable the window bar to make it look a lot cleaner with a top bar. Here is a screenshot of how my GNOME looks [1]. I don't have the application menu because I use an app launcher, so it doesn't bother me that much. That's an investment you have to make if you want it to look like you want to. Maybe you just want to have a DE that works for you without tweaking it, which I understand. But I'm pretty sure you could make a GNOME desktop you like given the time. Having tested multiple desktop environment and window managers, it's pretty great having such a diverse pool of c

If you like the Win10 look, dash to panel [1] for Gnome can be almost indistinguishable if you change a few settings. [1] https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel

Yeah, I had to reinstall one from source. https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel