Yesterday my Factory/Tumbleweed system got updates to Gnome 3.16.

Things seem to work in general, though there are some areas where I still see room for improvement and/or need some help.

1. Design: The upstream Gnome designers still force title bars that consume too much of my screen height upon me.

In the past I could hack the title_vertical_pad settings in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml. Now those XML-based schemes seem gone. How can I perform such tweaking going forward? There have been some significant code changes under the hood. From what I understand there has been effort put into getting the Shell and matters of the desktop to share more code. I'd imagine if my understanding is correct, that this would account for the change.

2. Design: (Folder) icons on desktop are quite a bit larger than previous, and way too large for my taste and needs. However I failed to find a way to reducing their size again. It's simple to resize. Like in Firefox you can simply hold control and use your scroll-wheel.

3. As in the past most of my Gnome Shell extensions stopped working.

Unlike the Gnome 3.12 to 3.14 upgrade, updating via TweakTool actually is working now, a definite improvement.

However many extensions "broke" that actually did not. That is, just hacking 3.16 into .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json made them work again. (And, yes, I also reported all such cases to the upstream authors and they adjusted their extensions within hours.) This remains a design failure that I hope is going to be addressed at one point? I think this is certainly a feature and not a failure. I appreciate

On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 13:43 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: that this forces the designers to maintain the extensions. This 'flaw' guarantees that the extensions aren't neglected and unmaintained, which could otherwise could break someones shell. Such a thing has been a problem with other desktops.

Any help with items 1 and 2 will be appreciated.

Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer Sr. Director Product Management and Operations, SUSE

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Gerald, On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 13:43 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

2. Design: (Folder) icons on desktop are quite a bit larger than previous, and way too large for my taste and needs. However I failed to find a way to reducing their size again.

There is indeed not much possibility; you can change default size you wish to be presented using: gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level 'small' (you can choose between 'small', 'standard' and 'large', corresponding to the three positions of the slider in nautilus. This should also affect nautilus painting the desktop. Hope that helps you in this situation Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger