I got good recommendations for desktop shells on my other posts. I looked at Noctalia and DankMaterialShell, they both are built on top of QuickShell. QuckShell is a framework for writing widgets in QML, it wasn’t made until 2024. both Noctalia and DMS were made during the summer (all these dates looking at Github). They basically became popular over night.
I was looking at ricing during the spring and didn’t find anything as developed or popular. I had a bunch of tabs open for AGS & Astal, but didn’t find complete shells built on them. It seems like I would’ve had to start from scratch if I wanted an exact rice, but now I can edit pre-made QMLs instead.
This actually seems like the best time for linux ricing yet.
Ive seen some cool big projects made with AGS/Astal and EWW but their both gtk based, and gtk has been the defacto for years in making your own enviorment. Quickshell is intresting because its QT based instead, and since the ricing community likes new or different things were all trying out quickshell
Do you know any gtk equivalents of DMS or Noctalia (complete shells)?
Sorry for the late response
End4 is the first one that comes to mind since the dev has made a shell in most big widget framworks at this point. Great project to take inspo and some code from but AGS/EWW shells are archived
Hyprpanel is still being maintained and probably the best base to chose if your going with AGS
Otherwise check r/unixporn and sort top with the keyword “AGS” or “EWW” and your find a couple more
Great project to take inspo and some code from but AGS/EWW shells are archived
Eww isn’t archived though it hasn’t been updated in 6 months. AGS is still active: https://github.com/Aylur/ags
Sorry I was referring to End4’s EWW/AGS shells not the frameworks themselves