What it does
1. Multi-column layout: Moves multimedia to the right half, and leaves everything else on the left half. Super-wide screens get more than two columns.
2. Make 'What's new?' box for you to enter posts, and make your Circles always available – they are at the bottom of the screen and don't scroll.
3. Remove annoying suggestions.
4. Vertical space saver: move the +1 statistics to the lower right corner of the post (either overlapping the picture, or in the bottom of the article preview text) Condense white space considerably.
5. Remove speech bubbles: There's an option to turn them back on. I personally detest them.
Link to Chrome plugin, in case you are interested: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B52D6ns6sCFveF9vMEt2azdRR0k
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Can't seem to use +1 and reply buttons on comments. Just downloaded latest version. Also using Extended Share for Google Plus, if that helps? Very nice layout.
+Gary Calpo no, that isn't it – there's a bit of styling that tells it to use all the available space, even when you have the 'sorting' is turned off. It used to be there but somehow I missed it when updating from the old G+ version to the new G+ version.
+Sophie Wrobel Oh, I just didn't have that 2nd-column feature enabled. It works as expected once I Ctrl-Minus my text one more step to squeeze it in. After my main 24" panel fizzled out on me, I've been stuck in the narrow confines of my secondary 17" monitor in portrait mode. My new Dell Ultrasharp arrives later today 🙂
+Gary Calpo sorry, I just noticed something strange with your screenshot – you should have more columns showing than that. Try again. 🙂
+Sophie Wrobel Thank you for the update! I can now see all my circles and saved searches on my LCD — provided I Ctrl-Minus my text size one notch. (Screenshot http://i.imgur.com/K1nXI.png ) And yes, I should probably clean out some of them 🙂 Most of my saved searches are from the early G+ "Sparks" feature but the first few I still use to keep tabs on local happenings.
Update for +Axel Eble +David D. Stanton – fixed the bug which causes the buttons to be blocked, as well as a first attempt at the stream-randomly-stops issue.
+Gary Calpo I've also condensed the 'more' list under the circle-bar – not quite a solution, but should make more circles visible.
Other than that, fixed a few display quirks on individual post view and on profile view.
Moved bugs over to https://github.com/webmagex/cleanGPlus/issues?state=open since it's getting to be more than I can keep track of in my head, and this thread is getting too long to follow easily. 🙂
+Sophie Wrobel lol I'm a bit OCD with my circles. I use it to (roughly) sort my follows by interest, then throttle each circle accordingly so my stream isn't swamped by photography or tech news.
That would be awesome if the "circle-bar" went all the way across. I would also love to anchor some of my saved searches to the circle-bar. I have a couple geographic searches that I wish were more easily accessible.
Amazing job so far! 🙂
+Gary Calpo you need fewer circles. 🙂
No, seriously, thanks for the clarification! I got your point now – the last I checked, the menu opens upward, but you're right – this thing needs a better way to handle lots of circles. Will make a note on this – I know +Frédéric Bazin was dreaming of expanding them to fill the grey bar on his huge monitor when I started on this plugin some time ago, but I still haven't gotten around to extracting all the links and calculate the size of his monitor in order to hide the rest of the circles under 'more'.
+Sophie Wrobel Just to clarify my original issue. At the bottom, where you docked the Circle shortcut buttons (starting with the "All" button) I can get to my first two circles (in my case, #Drafts and #Bookmarks). The rest of my circles are supposed to be accessible via the "More" button. But because that button is anchored to the bottom of the page, the menu of additional circles that appears is largely inaccessible.
+Axel Eble probably another extension. Mine doesn't touch anything on the commenting functionality – that's original Google. I have been hearing repeatedly that this update is particularly buggy in the European user base, though – maybe it's Google's fault?
I couldn't type in the textbox. Maybe some other extension is interfering?
+Axel Eble i've found a bug which blocks the buttons sometime – will upload a fix the next time round.
Commenting is working, though – it is only 'not working' if the post owner disabled comments on the post.
Next time don't slip a picture of "the Shrub" in there. It's bad PR on a product launch.
+Sophie Wrobel Alternatively, directly possible from : settings->extensions.
Yes just uninstall the extension
+Dhaval Shah Visit this site in your Chrome browser: chrome://chrome/extensions/
From there you can delete or deactivate any extensions you don't like to 'reverse' their effect.
Sweet +Sophie Wrobel great job!
+Sophie Wrobel Is this reversible? if someone don't like it.
Using it now and its pretty great. Thanks a lot +Sophie Wrobel
+Jyoti Dahiya +Mark Wisnewski +Amir ex First you need to configure chrome to accept extensions.
1. Right-click on Chrome icon on your desktop
2. Choose "Properties",
3. Look for the "Target" field. Add "–enable-extensions" at the end of the path. It should look now something like this:
"C:…chrome.exe" –enable-extensions
4. Click "OK".
5. Restart Chrome.
Now you can install extensions without the web store! So click the download link, and after you click on the downloaded file it will pop up a warning asking you if you are sure you want to install the extension.
Chrome runs it not windows
Hmm, I downloaded it from the page, but windows refuses to run the .crx file. Any suggestions?
Hard work
Yes if you use Chrome
Does it work on Windows?
+Sophie wrobel ill look that up and let you know when I get back to my
computer. Thanks!
Sorry Sophie I meant Chrome 19, not Firefox.
That's very handy, will check that out.
+David D. Stanton Probably conflicting CSS… do you have a link to which translate extension you're using?
+Roberto Boccadoro This is for Chrome, not Firefox. 😉
+Karan B Not that professional yet to have a nice hosted site with a one-click install button, but there's a link at the bottom of the post where you can click on the download link to install. It's just created to make G+ usable for me, and I figured perhaps others would be interested in it too!
That said, if you want to make a nice page and all that, you can go ahead. The code is sitting on github, give me your alias and I can let you make a page for it if you want. 😉
+Marcus Kaczmarek There's an option in the extension settings to let you get rid of the chat bar, if that helps.
Got the multi columns working had to kinda shrink the chatbar and keep my zoom down but it looks awesome now i can see more of my stories instead of all the videos and pics and have to scroll nice work on this plugin thnks
wheres the button that allows me to get what is shown in the pic? Learn g+, thats what FB and Twitter are all about, easy buttons to do things, just put a button everywhere to "install"
Hi Sophie, in my Ubuntu machine with FF13 the plugin does not work well. The leftmost column is cut by the sidebar.
Nice look . I'll see what Google does this week but might come back to it.
In multicolumn layout comments do not unfold anymore, nor does reshare or commenting work.
+Sophie Wrobel Thanks! Also I have translate installed and it pushes the buttons over for sharing a post under the show activity buttons any thoughts?
+Marcus Kaczmarek There could be two reasons, (1) your screen is not wide enough for two columns, or (2) you turned off the multi-column option.
+David D. Stanton I'm aware of this sporadic issue. Sometimes there is a loading error (when the timestamps don't appear), but sometimes I've noticed it just 'stops' for no reason – still trying to isolate the bug.
+Gary Calpo it depends. It does very simple timestamp sorting (sometimes it opens 'upwards', sometimes 'downwards'). The circles should be fixed at the bottom of the screen (i.e. not scrolling), so you should be able to access them regardless.
Is the "More" button at the bottom of the screen supposed to open "upwards"? Mine is still trying to open downward, so I can't get to my other circles or saved searches. If it makes any difference, I'm using a 17" LCD at 1024×1280 (rotated)
+Sophie Wrobel Noticed a bug with it, I am following close to 5000 people and my streams usually moving pretty quick, however, after getting the updates it does not seem to want to update the stream (I checked the pause button but its not paused) I reload the whole page and get a ton of back posts…
Of all the nights for my 24" to die on me 🙁 Will post feedback when the new monitor arrives. This looks very interesting.
great but its not showing the Multi-column
Wow, it really compresses the data stream! Just installed it and so far I really like it! Great Job +Sophie Wrobel
well done.. +Sophie Wrobel I am adding you to my resource list for projects.
wow…still trying to fix their inefficient layout hey?…:). I'm afraid I've all but given up on them creating a productive interface. Now I only come onto GPlus for a fun few minutes of interesting links. The lost potential kills me, but hey it is what is. Your extension looks like a major improvement though.
Installing now! Thanks!
+PJ Rosenberg Yep. Couldn't find exactly what I wanted on the market, so I made my own.
you wrote this extension?