Well, it's been ages since I've looked at gnome-shell. This is probably since I really didn't like what I saw that first time. Gnome-shell was so slow, so heavy, took up so much of the screen, was so distracting, was so buggy, and so through-and-through awful that I decided to swear off of Gnome if they tried to make me use it. Well, the gnome-shell group has made progress since then, and most of it is for the better.
Firstly, most of the animations are gone. What's left ranges from slick (the search box's glow effect) to minorly ugly (the choppy zoom effect). Still, the animation set is a lot better, and that's a VERY good thing.
Secondly, even though the window manager is still WRITTEN IN JAVASCRIPT, it is slightly more responsive. It still lags my computer when dragging a window (which should be considered a deadly sin, right next to using Javascript to program a WM) but it lags... less... which is... good?
Also, the method for adding new desktops has changed. This is probably the best thing they've done, since the new layout gives more room to the current desktop. This makes it so that not only is it easier to see/manage the windows, but the zoom-out effect made whenever opening the "Activities" tab is less jarring. That said, I'd still rather not have the whole thing, and just have a simple desktop with a menu... but I guess that's just me...
Gnome-shell still has bugs, oh man does it have bugs. 4 minutes into testing it, I clicked the 'Recent Documents' tab, and gnome-shell crashed so spectacularly that I had to do a 'pkill -9 -u myers' in another session to get myself out of it. That was fun. :X
So, long story short, gnome-shell is getting better. I still don't want to use it, but at least it's less offensive than the earlier version that I used...
Now to get back to my programming, and I promise that my next post will be more substantive, and not some cheap review of a pointless shell. ;)
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