One of the most frustrating thing about #Asahi #Linux: #GNOME is so *incredibly* close to working perfectly witch a notch. Literally all you need to do is to increase the size of the top bar size a bit and move the calendar/notifications menu to the right and it's perfect.

But GNOME doesn't have those options, you have to use extensions. And changing the top bar size from an extension is buggy and breaks in weird ways after suspend.

I actually started planning a blog post about how well GNOME can work with a notch because its design happens to be an almost perfect match already. I stopped when I started having this issue.

I tried finding ways to work around it. IIRC, if I modified the bar height through changing the default theme's CSS, it would work fine. But the default theme's CSS file is bundled in a .gresource file, and it gets overwritten when GNOME updates, so it wasn't practical.

@mort this feels like it could be upstreamed. We would need a way to know if a specific display has insets/notches/punch hole cameras, which realistically we’ll need for mobile devices anyway. Once we have a way to define that, we could have Shell avoid drawing in that region.

Maybe we can check in with @agx wrt what Phosh is doing and if we can work on getting that upstream in Shell?

@cassidy @mort When running #phosh just add the notch info to #gmobile and you're done.

For fullscreen apps this needs Wayland protocol support. This is work in progress (but the compositor already uses the same info).

A gnome-shell extension could just pick up the same info.

See https://phosh.mobi/posts/notch-support/