Hi

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Joe Zeff  wrote:

>  If I wanted a DE with One True Way to do things and no easy way to change it, I might as well be using Windows.

The defaults are simple but GNOME Shell UI is actually extremely customizable.  The entire UI is just scriptable widgets,  With extensions you can modify anything you want.  It even has a javascript debugger built-in.  It is pretty similar to Firefox in that regard.   

Rahul