Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP
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Significant progress update on UI scaling to enable Gnome 42 on the PinePhone Pro.


[Image: Screenshot-from-2022-04-14-23-30-03.png][Image: app-drawer-4x5.png][Image: Screenshot-from-2022-04-14-23-31-56.png]

How this was achieved:

Gnome Extensions:
* App Grid Tweaks (Set max Columns to 4, row count as 5 and Icon size to 64px).*NOTE* This extension required extension validation to be disabled and a file hack to force it to always load the max column count as '4' and row count as '5'.
* Dock from Dash (Not to be confused with 'Dash to Dock' as that is presently broken in Gnome 42).
* Just Perfection (Multiple tweaks including hiding unnecessary items in top bar)
* Maximize To Workspace (Automatically moves new windows to their own workspaces)
* Maximized by default (Launches app in maximized state to utilize multiple workspaces more effectively)


Wayland Fractional Scaling @150%, run the following command:

Code:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"



NOTES:
* Gnome 42 has support for 3 finger gestures to switch between workspaces and to pull the app list (and dock) up on screen. Although single finger/thumb screen edge gestures may be more effective than 3 finger gestures, this is a good starting point to making Gnome more usable on the PinePhone devices.

* Most Gnome-Core apps scale pretty well on the PinePhone Pro, although there are a couple of exceptions, one example exception is the new GTK4 Text Editor application, at 150% scaling on the PPP, the app is just ever so slightly too wide and so the app doesn't support maximized window mode and requires a little dragging from left to right (and vice versa) when trying to read the last few characters in a word.

* The power button to turn the screen off works in 'PostMarket OS', but not in Manjaro which I previously tried, and so screen on/off capabilities are now there in this distro build, although PMOS has other issues on this installation such as lack of audio output.

* With the present configuration on the PinePhone Pro, I found that with the screen off for 7 hours the battery only went down by 18%, although when the screen is on it was typically going down by about 1% for every 1 to 3 minutes. So screen on battery can be rather poor, but screen off battery life is not too bad.

* The notification layout is still cut off when you expand the clocks calendar/notification popup, to fix this we would require the extension 'Notification centre' to be updated to work with Gnome 42 and to separate the Notification UI from the clock/calendar popup.

*Edit*
Updated the configuration a little adding Blur My Shell and changing the App Grid layout to fit a 4x5 grid on there.
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Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by PineFLOWn - 04-07-2022, 08:25 AM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by PineFLOWn - 04-14-2022, 05:14 PM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by Truemmerer - 05-03-2022, 05:20 PM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by PineFLOWn - 05-04-2022, 01:29 PM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by Fish - 05-03-2022, 11:23 PM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by Fish - 05-04-2022, 03:25 PM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by PineFLOWn - 05-07-2022, 06:02 AM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by Fish - 05-07-2022, 08:36 AM
RE: Gnome 42/GTK4 on PPP - by Dragonborn - 05-07-2022, 08:13 AM

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