I just got the update that changed the look of gnome and gnome-shell. I am still not seeing what you are seeing though. I do hate the “let’s hide everything behind a menu” though process of this release. I used to be able to right-click for a context menu. Now I have right-click for a context group and then click that to hopefully see the option that I want to select. Why are we implementing touch interface concepts on the desktop?
This is just as bad as MS pushing Metro on the server. Why would you push tablet application interfaces on enterprise servers?