Sorry, I forgot to mention a few things in my last post:
I think Trisquel 5.5 shows how nice Gnome 3.0 can look like although I rarely can see a benefit by using Gnome over another DE. With main focus on a fast, slim and reliable system I would rather choose something like XFCE or LXDE for Trisquel 6.X.
Speaking for the file manager I just wanted to highlight how much you can enhance your productivity once you got used to writing all those small helper scripts yourself and integrate them into a filemanager which supports custom user actions (e.g. SpacemanFMMod, SpaceFM, Nautilus or Thunar). I think it is pretty important that Trisquel 6.X provides an alternative filemanager for "Power Users". At least more important than considering switching to MATE :-)
