applications-overview-tooltip

Gnome shell extension that shows a tooltip under applications icons on applications overview and search results.

Disclaimer

I am not currently actively developing this extension. All credit goes to the current maintainer Raphael Rochet - see https://github.com/RaphaelRochet/applications-overview-tooltip

Features

• Shows full text instead of cut-off/elipsized application title
• Shows the application description in the tooltip-label (optional) from the .desktop file of the application
• Comes in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French and German

One-click install

It's on extensions.gnome.org : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1071/applications-overview-tooltip/

Manual install

To install, simply download as zip and unzip contents in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/applications-overview-tooltip@RaphaelRochet

Changes

v8

• Fixed no tooltip in "Favorites" or after suspend

v7

• Gnome 3.36
• Updated translations

v6

• Gnome 3.34

v5

• Remove swipe animation
• Fix tooltip not showing up sometimes
• Minor fixes

v4

• Added german language (thanks Nikolai Neff)
• 'No tooltip in groups' bug fix

v3

• New option to draw borders
• Minor fixes

v2

• Added translation support
• French language
• A few bug fixed
• New tooltip style
• Added slide animation between icons
• Added group applications count (optional)

Credits

• current active development Raphael Rochet
• 2012,2013 Original author Franco Bianconi
• 2014 Updated and upgraded by Karel Macha