Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

[Stephen Allen <marathon durandal gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:38:57PM -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> 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.

I'm using Gnome 3.22.0 on Debian Stretch, and I have a working weather
extension. What version of GnomeShell are you using and on what distro?

I agree with difficulty adding some apps to favourites, but otherwise,
GnomeShell is maturing nicely. The top panel can be customized through
extensions - maybe you should visit https://extensions.gnome.org/ and
view what's available to customize panels. HTH