My gripes with Gnome Shell

[Jeffrey Needle <jeff needle gmail com>]

Two things about Gnome that just make it unusable for me.  First, the 
top panel needs to be more customizable.  I want the FULL date, not just 
the month and day.  I want a working weather app.  The other thing is 
the difficulty in adding some apps to the favorites. If it's an app that 
is launched, say, using a shell script, you have to manually create a 
file to make it appear in the apps display. For new users, who I install 
regularly, this is just too difficult. Why can't the developers make 
some of these things work correctly? Mate and XFCE have working weather 
apps.  And XFCE lets you display the date and time in so many ways, as 
does Cinnamon.