There are no application icons in the top panel, however there are various gnome extensions to install an applications menu in the top bar.
You can find extensions at https://extensions.gnome.org/, you do need a firefox add-on to properly use this website. However a lot of their programmers use a github page to store their extensions, so you can get them there too. To enable desktop icons you need to set the setting in gnome-tweak-tool, which is a python application for advanced gnome-shell settings. -- (o_ //\ Regards, Groeten, V_/_ Bas Burger. On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:21:58 +0000 John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com> wrote: > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling the > various components from source. > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the top > panel. > > I can use nautilus to navigate to /usr/local/share/applications and > launch various gnome apps by double-clicking on the *desktop files, > so things seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why there are > no application icons on the desktop. > > Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, but this > does not change anything - any trouble-shooting suggestions would be > welcome. > > Regards > John > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
