Comment 5 for bug 574822

The main features I'm using are the Scale feature, especially with window grouping by application (Expose-like behaviour).

I quite like the visual effects but I could do without them from a productivity point of view. Scale I can't do without. It is critical to me managing large numbers of windows simultaneously (typical is 30 or more, 20 firefox + 4 File Manager + IM + IDE + etc. etc.).

I found Gnome shell to be a bit clumsy but I'm optimistic for the future. It's a nice approach and cold map well to the way I work, but wasn't really stable or well-documented enough to use when I tried it a month or so ago. I'm already using Gnome-do at the heart of my system.

If I drop Compiz is there a way to get Netbook and Gnome Shell to play ball and is there a stable version? Until then, Compiz compositing works, so why reinvent the wheel, especially if that wheel is incompatible with previous wheels?