I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell
a try occasionally just to annoy myself :)
The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making
progress that might help some of you:
First, the addition of gstreamer-1.0 is now installed along side the
old gstreamer-0.10, which apparently has broken rhythmbox. At first I
thought that sound support was broken completely but after a few hours
of frustration I found the breakage is confined to rhythmbox and a bug
report is already filed.
Second, when I use gnome in fallback mode, I found that the multiload
panelapplet kept closing and refused to restart. I worked around that
headache by turning off background transparency in the gnome panel
settings menu.
Third, the cinnamon clone of the gnome multiload panel applet was also
broken, but the workaround is to update the applet from the 'Get new
applets' link on the cinnamon panel settings menu. The new version is
ignoring its own settings, but at least it works again. (The version
you want is the one by Orcus, which replaces the older one by Ebbes.)
I expect all of these bugs will be fixed when more gnome packages are
updated by the gentoo devs.
(BTW, I've switched to cinnamon because the upstream gnome devs are
soon dropping support for the fallback compatibility mode.)
