Let me tack my impressions here, as I’ve used it for almost a week now.

One of the things I miss the most is the keyboard layout indicator. I like to know which layout I’m with right now. For example I started typing the message with the wrong layout. oops. Most monolinguals won’t notice though.

The activity orientation bothers me some. I’ve got 4 desktops now – media, browsing, misc and IM. I find myself switching way too often. Maybe I just have an attention deficit, or maybe the split into activities is a bit artificial – for example I like to watch a movie during a slow going IM conversation… so I have to drag the VLC window onto the IM activities desktop.

Another annoyance is when you minimize something it goes nowhere. woo scary. It still shows up in the activities view and you can click it and it restores, but… annoying.

I don’t think I’ll stay here forever, I’ll return to gnome proper and wait some more.

— Arik