Taking GNOME to the Next Level

&#62; The way that the tray is triggered has also been changed. The hot corner – which many people had problems with – has been replaced. Instead, the whole of the bottom screen edge now acts as a trigger area; letting the mouse rest there for a short period will cause the tray to appear. We plan to improve this behaviour in subsequent releases, so that a certain about of pressure against the screen edge is required to open the tray (we need to wait for changes down the stack before we can achieve this).<p>Honestly, this makes me nervous. The Gnome team often seems far too willing to ship a bad experience because it will help "drain the swamp".

What I find amazingly idiotic is that when I try to access the url from India, I get this message<p>"The URL you requested has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom(CHNN). URL = afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/taking-gnome-3-to-the-next-level/"<p>Now, why the department of telecommunications is taking down articles on Gnome, one can only speculate. But, I think that they think Gnome is a bittorrent client. It's the only reasonable explanation. :)

Gnome may not be dead and it's nice to see them work hard to achieve a suitable user experience. However, I personally don't like the <i>look</i> of it. To me it seems the windows don't fit the rest of the U.I. The borders are too big, in my opinion and the buttons don't "feel" right or look right.<p>Usability wise, it's still lacking, I think. I'm a grumpy sob, I guess. I hope they succeed but I have to be honest, I don't think they will.<p>/end grump

What I want is to be able to use the Gnome Shell at the same time as a panel. Currently you can only pick one. Gnome Shell (and Unity) suck at managing multiple instances of apps or their windows which covers most of what I run due to a dual screen setup. So I need the panel for that, but then can't use the Shell.<p>I did have both working in an earlier release, but the panel was from a third party and they break on every gnome release.

Taking GNOME to the Previous Level?

tired of gnome PR.. gnome is dead, let it RIP