How to make gnome3 on F15 more convenient

[Steve Underwood]

On 06/15/2011 10:43 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 12:54 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 08:30 AM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote:
>>> One think I found convenient in the gnome on F14 is a panel where you
>>> can put launcher packages. Whenever you need  a package, it is only a
>>> single click away. The question is, can I do similar thing for the
>>> gnome3 on F15.
>>> Thanks for any suggestion.
>> Check out the following thread by Antonio Olivares on this mailing list,
>> I think you will find a lot of beneficial infor there:
>>
>> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2011-06/msg00164.html
> I also am having trouble trying to "adapt" to Gnome3.
>
> Two things which I found helped a lot (and are mentioned
> in the referenced thread above but I'll mention explicitly
> here to save some digging..)
>
>    yum install gnome3-shell-extensions-dock
>
> This adds something like the vertical bar with favorite
> application icons that is on the left side of the screen
> in the Overview mode, to the right side and makes it visible
> all the time.
>
> The second was to
>
>    yum install gnome-tweak-tool
>
> run it, and in the File Manager section, turn on "Have
> File Manager handle the desktop".  This allows any things
> you had in your gnome2 ~/Desktop directory (including
> program launchers) to appear (and function) on your Gnome
> 3 desktop.  I'm not sure if there is a way of creating
> new launchers in Gnome 3 -- I've been just using the ones
> I created in F11's Gnome 2.
>
> I am still find moving back and forth between workspaces
> to be a PITA tho.
>
I think you mean

     yum install gnome-shell-extensions-dock

Steve