[Paul_S]

I agree, they should leave the streamlined gimmicky "we know what you want better than you do" approach to Unity and stick to making a developer's desktop. Canonical can invest money in Unity to pay devs - it's beneficial for them to get non-programmers as users. This is not the case for Gnome which relies on users to be programmers and develop it. If they can't use it because it's no longer for them then they will not contribute to it.

[icarus127]

I completely agree with this. As a programmer HUD is the only thing keeping me on unity. Gnome 3 is _way_ more stable on all of my computers and I prefer it aesthetically.