applications-overview-tooltip

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

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 Dutch, Czech, 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

###v22

Gnome 47

###v21

Gnome 46

###v19

Changes to comply with EGO Review Guidelines

v18

Gnome 45
Refreshed preferences dialog

v17

Gnome 44
Added tooltip on keyboard navigation too (can be disabled)

v16

Gnome 43

v15

Gnome 42

v14

Minor refactoring

v13

Gnome 41

v12

Gnome 40
Removed ellipsis condition
Added Dutch translation

v11

German translation improvements (thanks Etamuk)
Brings back tooltips on search results
Fixed schema filename (for packagers)

v10

Gnome 3.38

v9

Ensure tooltip hiding on page change or overview hiding
Make title optional in tooltip ; reworked prefs window
Added Czech translation (thanks Karel Mácha)
Fixed warnings in log

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

2012,2013 Original author Franco Bianconi
2014 Updated and upgraded by Karel Macha