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None of these are problems with Gnome shell though, it's just as happy running thunar or kde programs.

For file copy, I swear I have yet to see a variant of this that I actually liked. Not sure why it's so hard to properly solve.

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No but I never claimed that the shell itself was the main issue (though the app drawer is definetly part of it). It's the gnome ecosystem in general that took this approach. Of course I can use a different app each time one changes the way they do stuff but that's the point I shouldn't have to learn a new app because an update broke what I used to use

I find kde file copy pretty nice. It shows up in the systray as a queue of work in progress easy to both keep track of and ignore.

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