Bolt – A Unity Type Dash For Gnome Shell

Are you one of those people who like both Gnome Shell and Unity, but can’t decide which one to stick with? Well, there has been a Gnome Extension released called ‘Bolt’. This extension is basically the Unity Dash for Gnome Shell. It does a lot of what the actual Unity dash does, like storing recent items, changing it’s background colour to suit your background and it has a search field.

There are some differences between the actual Unity Launcher and ‘Bolt’, for example, there are no lenses supported in Bolt. But it is a very good replica for those wanting to merge features of Unity and Gnome Shell together. Unfortunately the Gnome extensions site was down when I wrote this article so I couldn’t install it and make my own screen shot so the one below is courtesy of OMG! Ubuntu!

The extension is still under development and a number of future features that the developers want to add have already been mentioned. Some of these include:

• Workspace management
• Improved theme support
• Integrated search-provider extensions
• Changing icon sizes
• Changing “Bolt” text and/or show an icon
• Drag to resize