&gt; if you enable the &quot;window list&quot; plugin for shell<p>And add minimize&#x2F;maximize buttons and applications (&quot;start&quot;) button. I have no idea why Gnome has to experiment, they have lost so many users unnecessarily. At least it&#x27;s configurable to something sane. They are far from catering to the same feature-averse audience of iPad so there&#x27;s no use in trying to (poorly) emulate its minimalist design language.