Xmonad + GNOME (with GNOME Do as launcher). I like the GNOME utils (wifi UI, panels, panel applets, desktop switcher, notification area, etc), but prefer xmona

Xmonad + GNOME (with GNOME Do as launcher). I like the GNOME utils (wifi UI, panels, panel applets, desktop switcher, notification area, etc), but prefer xmonad's tiling behaviour, keyboard-centricity and configurability. This used to work wonderfully in the Gnome 2.x days, but Gnome 3 is more monolithic - you basically have to use the whole Gnome Shell, window manager and all, or drop to Gnome Classic, which is an incomplete and buggy reimplementation of Gnome 2.x using the new (and backward incompatible) versions of the libraries. I'm using the latter at the moment, but not deliriously happy about it.