Hi John,
Seems the problem is that you don't know hot to use gnome shell no? [0]
You have to click the "Activities" button in the left-up corner to show the
"Overview", when you will see the dash to launch applications, the
workspaces, the windows, and a search entry for all kind of things
(applications, files, settings). Then in the Dash (the bar at the left) you
have to click the last button with a 9 dot form. Here will open the app
picker, where frequent/all applications are shown.
[0]: Gnome solves this with its getting-started module, which helps you to
get started with gnome and gnome shell.
Since you are compiling things on yourself, and I guess you didn't
compile this module and it didn't show for you.
2014-03-30 5:47 GMT+02:00 John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com>:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Just to be sure I understood:
>
> I thought various applet icons - network-manager-applet, Bluetooth,
> weather, etc, were meant to appear in the top panel? All I have is a sound
> icon and the icon to switch the machine off (which doesn't work).
>
> If the gnome-tweak-tool is required to obtain desktop application icons,
> how are users supposed to launch applications? The only method I have
> available is <alt-F2> to bring up a command line to launch applications.
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yaa101 [mailto:yaa...@xs4all.nl]
> > Sent: Sunday, 30 March, 2014 03:19
> > To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org
> > Cc: John Frankish
> > Subject: Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3
> >
> > 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
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