Hi Hugh, On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 1:09 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
(It's hard to talk about this GUI stuff because I (and probably you) don't know the names of visual components.)
The shell-introduction page in the online help (press the super key and type help) looks like it's been updated recently.
On the top bar of the screen, "Activities" is on the far left. Next to it used to be the name of the application that had focus. If you clicked on that name, you would get a list of instances of that application, plus a couple of other potentially useful choices. Am I the only one who cares about the loss of this feature?
I used to use the app menu once in a while.
The word "Activities" has been replaced with a horizontal oval and a dot. I don't know what that change signifies. I don't even know how to interrogate GNOME about this.
The oval-and-dot is now called the activities button. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2902 Mike