On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:

Now if only "cannot display date with the time in top panel" could be
a gnome3 blocker bug, that would be one less gnome3 issue. The other
major one of notifications being seemingly overengineered while still
being pretty useless probably is a bigger issue :/

It is possible to display date with time in the panel just fine. use gnome-tweak-tool to do that. I agree that notifications are problematic however. I had to install a extension just to get to know when a open window in pidgin is getting new messages.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/258/notifications-alert-on-user-menu/

Rahul