The Best Features Of GNOME In 2012

301: favorites menu, notifications

302: Interface is really good.

303: multiple workspaces

304: starting/searching apps in the shell using a (hardware) keyboard

305: nautilus, gnome-keyring

306: dash, notificaton-area, extensions, empathy integration, calendar integration, themes, the way of working with desktops

307: new dash, global search

308: The best thing in GNOME 3 is the window selector, putting the (mouse in the top left), and UNITY for me is fat, ugly and non user friendly

309: global multimedia keys

310: staying away from DBUS, draging an image onto nautilus without pressing ctrl

311: probably the dynamic desktops

312: Fallback mode

313: activities as new way of switching windows (opposed to old task bar paradigm)

314: Nautilus audio preview that was lost.

315: Exposé and the dash

316: Panels, Desktops

317: Access to remote filesystems with gvfs, advanced options in networkmanager

318: Fallback session

319: Dual pane mode in Nautilus

320: its look and feel

321: window management (none of this windows 8-style full screen apps please!)

322: virtual desktops. mission control.

323: apt-get install

324: If there's something better (faster, less memory usage, efficient, ...), feel free to replace! But don't take away any features... :(

325: I really love the way that the overview works,

326: Static workspace on second monitor.

327: Fallback mode

328: Minimize/Maximize buttons

329: hot corner, shell search

330: categories for finding things easily

331: The snazy window managment

332: The Shell comes really in handy

333: Usability -- but it's already gone.

334: Stable incremental updates

335: Minimalism, virtual desktops,

336: hot corner

337: Everything that's already there

338: A app dock show in destop for quick access

339: Visual simplicity, window management, search, extensions, themes are css

340: Sloppy focus.

341: Don't make apps less usable for desktop users. nautilus, gedit, gnome-office, empathy

342: notify location is foolish, it's better to relocate to top

343: visible applet icons, shortcuts and 1 click window management

344: visible applet icons, shortcuts and 1 click window management

345: Calendar, Nautilus, Desktop, Taskbar, Window Min/Max

346: have multiple windows on screen

347: Compiz compatibility

348: Gnome Shell, extensions

349: visible applet icons, shortcuts and 1 click window management

350: Nautilus, Window Manager, Gnome-Terminal

351: Nothing specific comes to mind.

352: Activities OverView

353: minimalism, simplicity, beauty, same look and feel all around the desktop environment

354: Plug-ins that modify how the desktop works

355: Zeitgeist, Failback

356: Gnome classic / 2D version

357: Configurable panels

358: general layout of the desktop

359: Search, Notifications, Extensions,

360: Application, Places, System top panel

361: terminal start scripts

362: auto search while typing

363: gnome shell extensions

364: VISIBLE RUNNING TASKS

365: fallback gnome-panel

366: docks + sensors (cpu freq, sysmon, sys temp)

367: Perhaps ... Google account intergration

368: keyboard shortcuts

369: the exposé / window picker mode

370: Nautilus, Gedit, GNOME Terminal

371: Desktop Icons

372: top left hot coner - it's fast; evolution; nautilus; rhythmbox

373: Gnome 2.32 options

374: classic desktop, panel applets, metacity

375: The search buttons for Wikipedia and Google are a nice feature.

376: cutting features from Nautilus was a dealbreaker for me

377: launcher, extensions

378: Searching in Activities view

379: fallback mode

380: choice, gtk3 needs independance

381: none (answered hoping they dont remove EVERYTHING :) )

382: integrated chat

383: GNOME 2 Notification Area

384: multiple desktops

385: gnome-shell, super key binding, adwaita theme

386: application categories

387: Mouse based interface

388: rightclick everywhere (touch devices have this 'keep your finger pressed to bring rightclick options'

389: Evolution mail

390: Gnome Fallback mode

391: Fallback mode

392: Gnome Shell

393: App launcher menu

394: I rely on extensions to make gnome3 look like gnome2; I want gnome-shell to go away

395: I never took up GNOME 3 because it was not possible to have a 3x3 grid of workspaces

396: Workspace, Expo

397: 2d virtual desktops (fixed positions), taskbar, window manager options like always on workspace and always on top.

398: Network manager. Better than kde

399: tranditional desktop *functions*

400: Split view in nautilus