Hello,
it's been a longer time that Gnome 3 has been released. Now, I've seen many users around the internet (and this forums also) posting their experiences from their Gnome 3 builds.

However, it seems like Gnome 3 is not getting stable anyhow, and I guess most of you will agree with me, when I say 2.32 is getting too old. At least, compared to what other desktop environments offer.

So I'd like to ask you what is the situation with Gnome 3, or, how is your experience if you used overlays to install it. I'd like to make a move, but am unsure of overall stability, and support.


Thank you.

Skyer

it's fine. it lets me click on chrome and a terminal. job done. not sure what everyone is so concerned about.

Gnome 3 is stable in the sense that it doesn't crash, but unstable in the sense that it's under development and new functionality is being added. I've been using it since the Fedora 15 beta. It took a few days to get comfortable with it and to customize it the way I wanted it. The Fedora team has added a number of gnome-shell-extension packages to the repository that adds functionality to the base installation. These are the extensions I've installed:

gnome-shell-extension-places-menu
gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu
gnome-shell-extension-common

I've also added the 'Favourites in panel ' extension from GNOME Shell frippery site. With just those few changes, I'm very comfortable with the new shell.

Oh, one thing it is lacking... deleting icons from the menu bars... I keep accidentally dragging links from chrome onto it and I can't get rid of them!

Uhh, it's horrible, and multitasking is a nightmare. When Ubuntu released Unity, I had really hated it, But Gnome shell is so worser that It made me literally starting to love Unity. Right now I mainly use CentOS (Gnome 2.30), Pardus (KDE 4.5) and Ubuntu 11.10 Beta (Unity). Right now I had tried it On Fedora 15 and Mandriva 2011. I've tried using Fallback Mode, which was ok, but still requires allot of tweaking.

If you mean the application dock, you can right-click on the icon and select "Remove from favorites".

Can you explain what you mean by this? Multitasking is a function of the Linux kernel, not the Gnome shell.

I typically use 5 workspaces running many applications that I switch between constantly, and just set keyboard shortcuts to directly switch to each (System Settings->Keyboard). My workflow isn't any different than Gnome 2 in that regard, except that the workspaces are now dynamically allocated.

No I mean on forced fallback mode, like 2.x was, but there's no option to remove them. I think I found if you delete the name and the properties it can't be recreated on next reload though.

Just hold down the alt key and right-click. The pop-up menu will change to "Move" and "Remove from panel".

Its because before to navigate to another windows all you had to do is one click at the bottom (even on KDE, XFCE, Unity & LXDE). Now to show another windows or change, you have to do 3 clicks Activities, Windows and the window. Also the lack of customisabiliity, you are forced to have a black topbar, I mean even unity allows you to change the topbar.

ah, ace... that's really dumb though, who thought that was a good idea? two options on each pop up menu? pfft!

Alright, thank you for your opinions, I'll try it out. It's going to take some time though, I have a really slow internet connection now.

Thanks to all participants,

Skyer

What Distro will you use?

I've made my way through Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, and now I'm using Gentoo as main/stable distribution.


Skyer