The Gnome desktop puts a heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability and making things "just work", so a lot of its customizable aspects are not presented (as preference dialogs or menus) to the end user and are left to be discovered by the power users. The end-users are given a rich, feature filled desktop that satiates their needs, and as for the power-users seeking more out of their desktop, a conspicuous trail of breadcrumbs leading to desktop nirvana :). The following is a list of links to Gnome related tips, tricks, hacks etc., in no particular order.
- GNOME Hacks - This "is a repository for all those little tricks that people have worked out that do something useful or cool with their GNOME Desktop." You can submit your own hacks. A nice community effort.
- 10 Gnome Tweaks You Can’t Live Without by David Uhlman - As the title suggests, the author presents 10 really neat tweaks that can change your desktop experience.
- GNOME User's Board » Tips & Tricks - A Gnome support forum dedicated to tips and ticks.
- gTweakUI - This is a fairly simple project. A collection of simple dialogs as a front end to GConf. FreeBSD users can install from ports - (cd /usr/ports/deskutils/gtweakui && make install clean)
- GNOME 2.6 Desktop System Administration Guide - Lots of stuff on GConf, Sessions, Menu customizations, MIME types etc.
- Gnome tips for Fedora - How to remove the red hat (a fedora) from the panel
- Nautilus File Manager Scripts - A compilation of some useful scripts for use in Gnome's Nautilus file manager.
- Nautilus Scripts - Scripts to automate activities in the Nautilus file manager
- Gtk Theme Switch - GTK Theme Switch is a small and fast command line utility to switch GTK themes on the fly. It also has an optional GUI to preview the requested theme and change the font used with it, an optional GUI dock, and it can install themes downloaded from gtk.themes.org, preview them, or switch to them immediately. FreeBSD users, check out my blog.
- FreeBSD GNOME Project - Gnome 2.8 Frequently Asked Questions.
I am looking for more such resources; if you have any, please post them as comments here.