The Best Features Of GNOME In 2012
701: Functionality in general, stability,
702: the interface that is awesome from gnome 2, simple enough for a beginner to use, yet sophisticated enough for a veteran; there are a few unpolished edges (like elevating something like nautlius to rename a protected directory, but otherwise a great DE I will continue to use for the foreseeable future)
703: exposé with windows key, and the search option when you press windows key
704: main menu, applets. icons on desktop
705: Hot corner
706: Gnome 3 Virtual Desktop
707: Alt + `
708: IM Notifications
709: icons on the desktop!
710: speed, simplicity
711: nautilus tree, nautilus dual panel
712: Extensions, Workspaces,
713: automatic resize of windows when going up or left
714: system monitor in panel
715: integrated chat!
716: Nothing I can remember.
717: I love the activities/overview screen for switching apps, and the super key shortcut for opening it
718: nautilus tab,
719: dual panel nautilus
720: pressing backspace to go back a directory in nautilus, split view in nautilus, being able to create blank files in nautilus
721: sound tools, totem, network manager, integrated chat in the shell notification area, time tracker, evince
722: The Overview
723: Any kind of feature removal for the sake of "simplicity"
724: GTK3, Nautilus, Rhythmbox , Gnome-Terminal
725: i did leave gnome because its too bad to use
726: non 3d unaccellerated environment
727: Traditional desktop with file manager
728: classic panel with shortcut buttons and tools
729: Hot corner
730: App Launcher
731: Fallback mode for older video cards (ATI 92xx)
732: Power Manager
733: Easly configured panels with usefull launchers and applets. Straitforward and logical menu/naviagtion.
734: Honestly, I read this question and had to ask how much more they could possibly take away. Just... no.
735: Don't know
736: Better compatibility for GTK2+
737: controlling multiple machines with multiple gnome-session toolbars
738: See: GNOME 2
739: Nautilus is perfect as it is.
740: All kinds of keyboard-shortcuts
741: fallback session
742: panels, desktop icons
743: second monitor different workspace
744: Notifications. Program icons near the notifications area.
745: Gone has gui for controlling wifi while lxde has not.
746: gvfs, gnome-online-accounts
747: fall back for my old system. But new system, text on side for files
748: exposé mode, with Meta key
749: Classic menu
750: focus follows mouse
751: window switcher extension sort of Talika (was for Gnome 2)
752: traditional desktop
753: Activities menu just moving mouse button on top of screen
754: a system without sistemd dependency and other silly dependencies
755: The traditional 2.x interface
756: Various removed features from Nautilus (hello Nemo fork)
757: Whatever Cinnamon uses
758: gnome apps : disks, nautilus etc
759: new gnome search is good
760: Stability of UI
761: As it stands, I would like most features to remain in GNOME 3
762: Gnome settings in general and the dash search itself.
763: a good taskbar + apps there. evolution
764: why would they go away?
765: easy of use
766: a menu of applications, lack of whiteâ€space, system configuration preflets that have more than 2 tick boxes
767: Dynamic desktop feature
768: Ability to easily switch virtual desktops
769: fallback mode
770: no 3D acceleration required
771: window overview
772: gnome-settings-daemon & gnome-control-center
773: A damn fine question...
774: gdm, gtk
775: The customisability of the shell.
776: nautilus tree side pane
777: The paltry bits of configurability and customizability that remain from Gnome2.
778: If changes are to something better, anything can be changed.
779: zaphod multi monitor support
780: Nautilus dual-panel
781: Tree view in Nautilus, Multimonitor
782: nautilus multi views/panels, taskbars, simple accessible applications menu.
783: Shell search, Nautilus
784: Fallback mode
785: Terminal, multiple desktops
786: Keyboard shortcuts. Focus follows mouse.
787: the gnome-shell overlay
788: "I know better than you", stop dumbing down everything
789: shell search
790: Window positioning: edge-snap; virtual desktops
791: Practical, fast and nice UI
792: Activities Overwiev, ease of use, configuration options, online accounts integration
793: Infinite workspaces
794: Nautilus, EOG, Evince, Gedit
795: finding terminal windows
796: Shell & Activities
797: traditional interface (GNOME 2)
798: new alt+tab bevhavior, workspace behavior, themeing extension
799: Instant search, activities, hot corner, instant reply via empathy
800: keyboard shortcuts