I'm on 3.8 in Fedora 19 and my overall impression is it's pretty fast & clean.
Haven't had much luck getting gnome-shell-extensions running well. I got the weather one going by taking the one from the gnome site rather than the rpmforge package but system monitor, pomodoro timer and a couple of others aren't playing ball for me currently.
I have had to google how to do a bunch of different things since switching to it. I still don't know any commands except restart for the snazzy alt+f2 command overlay.
I'd most like it to add a apple key+space style search from the mac world.
Most interesting new app there is "boxes", a virtual machine / remote machine viewer / manager mashup thing. Looks quite promising to me.
When you say you want to search like Spotlight from the keyboard, what do you want to search that it doesn't already? Just press WinKey/Meta/Super and start typing when the overlay comes up. I added a calculator extension in there, as well as one to search Firefox bookmarks, and it's pretty much got me covered.
I have Fedora 19 with 3.8 on one of my machines as well. Can you, or anyone, tell me what's the deal with crappy font? I'm comparing it to what is in CentOS 6.4 and in RHEL 6.4. Does anyone know where this can be changed to look, er, better?
Yeah, the stock fonts on Fedora look absolutely terrible (especially on the web). To get usable fonts:
1. Install freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion
2. Get the Microsoft fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana
3. Edit your ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf to contain the same XML under the section "Subpixel-hinting and Font-smoothing" here: https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts
Haven't had much luck getting gnome-shell-extensions running well. I got the weather one going by taking the one from the gnome site rather than the rpmforge package but system monitor, pomodoro timer and a couple of others aren't playing ball for me currently.
I have had to google how to do a bunch of different things since switching to it. I still don't know any commands except restart for the snazzy alt+f2 command overlay.
I'd most like it to add a apple key+space style search from the mac world.
Most interesting new app there is "boxes", a virtual machine / remote machine viewer / manager mashup thing. Looks quite promising to me.