The new features of gnome 3 in fedora 15 is very annoying. Here are some nice tips to fix most illness.
Bring Desktop back (most useful one)
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
start /usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool
File Manager => Have file manager handle desktop =>ON
Have Minimise,Maximise button
sudo yum install gconf-editor
/usr/bin/gconf-editor
desktop.gnome.shell.windows change key
button-layout to “:minimize,maximize,close”
For other tweaks, check out this nice blog.
Four tweaks to bring back missing functionality in GNOME 3.0
This is helpful!
Unfortunately it does not answer the question of why this sort of thing is at all necessary to make a default WM/DE tolerable.
(I know, I know, Gnome3 is new, and it will get better, just like KDE did when that project dropped a bomb a while back…)
Here’s hoping that Gnome3 achieves a powerful, intuitive, discoverable default version in the near future (by 3.2, dammit!).