Since the true innovation of GNOME Shell isn't mentioned here anywhere the discussion is completely off. Surely the Shell is new and of course nobody was able t

Since the true innovation of GNOME Shell isn't mentioned here anywhere the discussion is completely off. Surely the Shell is new and of course nobody was able to customize it on day one to his old habits. Even all these blog entries with 50-things-I-do-after-installing-XXXX did not help. The result was frustration. GNOME 2 is customizable using entry points common to anyone familiar with *nix, there were scripts, CSS files, dialogs, options, configurations and more. All this thinking failed after installing GNOME Shell. You may call it offending. However UNITY showing 3D buttons looking like made with a pshop plugin from end of the last century is not an option. So how do you customize GNOME Shell? Here is the new entry point: open firefox and goto to https://extensions.gnome.org/ https://extensions.gnome.org/ Yes, you change your desktop environment from within your browser. Add, try out or disable shell plugins from your browser. And the best thing all is powered by JavaScript. The language running on every computer having a browser is used to customize your DE. So stop whining and enjoy the desktop revolution. Getting curiuos? Find the location of a extension and open it in your favorite IDE, change a string variable, save it, press ALt-F2, enter 'r' press enter and voila it is there. There is even a debugging tool, (Alt-F2, 'lg', enter). Now go and implement whatever you were missing in GNOME 2. It is time to see how users would build their perfect desktop interface.