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Hi everyone,
I'd like to have my apps as tiles within a full-screen view (ideally called via pressing the Windows button on the keyboard) in Linux, pretty much the Windows Metro look as seen above. I have all the icon files and just need to link them to the apps themselves. Might you know of a way to do that?
Thanks for your help! Temperche
I don't have a particular DE in my mind that offers this feature out of the box, but if one offers that, then it's KDE. Search for it in their application starter menu section, there's one for sure!
Question is: why do you want that?
It's wrong to judge one for their taste, that's sure. To be fair, I even liked the W8 menu when it came out.
The problem with it is, that it creates a "dive in"-effect, similar to when you enter a room and then forget what you wanted in the first place.
I personally would recommend you Vanilla Gnome. It has a similar, simplistic design language and the overview creates the opposite effect. Instead of the "enter a new room", the activity overview disconnects you from your current task and makes task switching easier while not forgetting what you originally wanted.
Are there any other reasons for why you chose the menu?
BRB, gotta wash out my eyes with bleach now.
I use rofi (on my machine with dmenu theme) and after some digging I found this: https://github.com/Dartegnian/rofi-metro You may use this on any distro as there are very few dependencies to run this simple launcher :)
There will always be someone requesting the weirdest Windows features.