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I mean for the shortcut's its just dump that I need to open "Activities". It's fine to open a full screen overlay (like it's done on Ubuntu and Mac), but I mean for things like a browser or my ide, which I open like every day a lot of the time it's dump to click Activities -> All -> Search -> Click Browser.

With a Dock I can just All -> Search -> Click and for my favs it's just "Click". Most people (like non Developers open at most 3-4 programs, all of them fit into a dash.

When I'm developing on my day to day job I barly need anything from the "All" panel. Neither in Linux nor in Mac. I mostly open IntelliJ, Chrome, and the Terminal and an Email program. Editor like sublime will be openend via a Terminal, Music program will run in background and could be started via my "Play" Button (on both systems), so basically Gnome lacks that. Basically I prefer Fedora but somehow I still use Ubuntu, since it's just install and it works like I like it and Fedora takes a few step to make it usable, so mostly a "foolness" issue. Ah and before 22 when connecting external monitors with different screen sizes the experience just sucked (not a problem anymore tough). Ah and also the Menubar on Gnome3 is way too thick. I mean some programs don't need that. like firefox. it's unnecessary since the X button could be added to the tab menu and the name of the application is displayed between "activities", so why do I need a 22pixel height menu bar ? Just to display an X?

Edit: Don't say that extensions can do that, since they are broken after every .2 release. Extensions are an excuse for not shipping useful features.