The gtk-redshift applet is unusable/too small in Gnome 3 Shell

[Karl M. Davis]

I'm running Gnome 3's Gnome Shell as my desktop environment, and find myself unable to use gtk-redshift. When going into the dash (or whatever Shell calls it) and clicking the icon, a vertical tray pops up with an up arrow, a down arrow, and about 1 pixel's worth of "usable" controls between them. I can neither read anything in here nor resize the applet to a usable size. When scrolling up and down with the arrows, I can manage to read that there are "Toggle" and "Quit" options, but I can't manage to select either of them.

I've attached a screen shot (please pardon the blurry camera photo: it seems PrintScreen doesn't work when the applet is up). The applet menu is blurrily visible in the bottom right corner.

[Thomas Liebetraut (tommie-lie)]

I don't think that an applet approach is appropriate in Gnome Shell. Life with notification area "applets" has become a lot easier in 3.8 with pointer barriers support, but in the long run, it's a *notification* tray, not a general place for all sorts of icons.

I started an attempt to have better integration into Gnome Shell here: <https://github.com/tommie-lie/gnome-shell-extension-redshift>. The extension is currently waiting for review at the Gnome extension repository.

There are still lots of quirks in this extension, but maybe this could be integrated into the redshift source package (just like gtk-redshift) once all problems are sorted out.