Here I go again complaining,but I think Gnome 3.6 really stinks;Gnome 3.4 I’m able to use it,if only for fun,Gnome 3.6 is regression,in my opinion!The most new “features” that jump right into my face are the unification with the top panel,and although I think it could be a neat feature it’s badly implemented…I mean no close button on maximized windows(and yes not all maximized windows unite with the top panel witch makes Gnome really inconsistent );the application grid doesn’t make sense being on the dash and at the bottom where it’s harder to reach,and of course crippled Nautilus,what’s up with removing compact view,extra pane removed I can understand I can live with tabs…but come on no more compact view!What do you think,I’m interested especially in Gnome users opinions and if the above complains make sense for others of you out there!>:(
I honestly haven’t installed Gnome in many years, I used it as a backup in case I screwed up KDE but in the last few years, that hasn’t been the case at all. I will have to run it in virtual machine and play around with it some.
I don’t know why I feel so happy when someone says GNOME xxxxs. what do you think?
to my experience, GNOME is pushing its old users into hell while has no power at all to attract new users…
In GNOME 3.6, they’re even trying to teach me, a Chinese, how to input Chinese, by implementing two whitelists( yes, one is not enough for them) blocking half of the input methods on a framework which they choosed before (but not the one I use and like), and blocking functionalities of the other half.
wtf?! do we have to use a mouse-only DE? if a DE can’t input, what is it built for?
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00180.html
It’s soooooo good we have the choice. Use what you like and what makes you feel good. And leave others with what they like.
Gnome shell (and gnome in general) just keeps on getting worse it seems, for example Nautilus in 3.6 is a total garbage heap for starters, not to mention with new releases comes far less features.
Soon the only thing gnome will have left is a tiny button on the upper left corner that requires command line just to open up a friggin menu.
But that is what insanity does to you I guess, this is why I like Mint and Ubuntu for forking Nautilus so it remains usable.
I hope in the future opensuse does the same, use a patched version of the old nautilus like the current ubuntu or a modded one like mint.
Don’t hold your breath. Normally openSUSE prefers to work with the upstream devs to get problems resolved there.
As that well-known Shakespearean character Knurpht suggested above, about having the choice, i.e. To be [a lab rat] or not to be: that is the question. Remember, the lab is funded by the owner of SUSE, as a proving ground for the SLE products. 
Well give it time and enough people will complain so maybe the team may consider.
Unless Marlin becomes a part of the main repositories by the time 12.3 comes out.
People all over the place are hating the new Nautilus, and if the openSUSE developers are smart they will listen to our grief.
I think people who don’t like nautilus in 3.6 can switch to Thunar(looks similar to Nautilus)
Thunar also retains the classic “openwith” where one can enter their own command
You can keep using shell and enjoy benefits of a good file manger.
Yes but the goal is usually to stick with default packages as much as possible
what people state here is also not good from a distro point of view
Very difficult to keep customising one app(Nautilus) from the DE(GNOME) every 8 months and testing it thoroughly unless the customisation is available in the upstream(GNOME DE) code base 
They will have their hands full just porting existing DE(latest version) into the next version of distro.