GNOME Shell 50

Small helpersin the top bar

Halo Harbor Ledge Tally Ember Torch

Extensions of my own for GNOME Shell 50 on Wayland. Each one stays small on its own, but they all follow the same rules and wear the same design: Toms Expressive Design, built on Material 3 Expressive and Google Sans Flex. No dependencies to install, no telemetry.

01 / Shared rules

Onefamily

An icon in the top bar A tile menu, 320px wide Settings unfold inside the menu Saved as settings.json

02 / The extensions

Sixtools

Halo

A top bar, a Dynamic Island, a notification center and quick settings, each one switchable on its own

GNOME Shell 50 · MIT GitHub ↵ Harbor

Harbor: a dock with pinned and running apps

A dock with pinned and running apps in ten styles, and its settings in the top bar instead of a window

GNOME Shell 50 · MIT GitHub ↵ Ledge

Ledge: desktop widgets such as a clock, system load and weather

Desktop widgets: a clock, the load of the machine, the weather and twenty-three more, placed freely and shown over the windows from the top bar

GNOME Shell 50 · weather from Open-Meteo GitHub ↵ Tally

Tally: a ring in the top bar and a menu with plan usage

Shows how much of the Claude plan is used: the five-hour session as a ring in the top bar, the week and this machine's tokens in a menu

GNOME Shell 50 · data from Claude Code GitHub ↵ Ember

Keeps Claude working with the lid closed: the screen off, every other program at rest, and the machine asleep as soon as the work is done

GNOME Shell 50 · systemd user unit GitHub ↵ Torch

Torch: a menu listing programs by power draw

Shows which program draws the most power and how busy the machine is. One click puts a power eater to rest

GNOME Shell 50 · no root needed GitHub ↵

03 / Up next

What'scoming

A file manager A model for new features in Nautilus, in the same design as the extensions

(The dock, the quick settings and the new top bar from the earlier plan now exist as Harbor and Halo.)