I still haven't found anything that I like better than openSUSE-Gnome
12.01. I like the idea of the long-term-support releases of Ubuntu, but
not really happy with the direction the desktop is going.
There is (yet another) distro based on Ubuntu 12.04, called Ultimate
Edition. It uses the Gnome desktop, so I may have to try it.
http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition/ultimate-edition-3-4-lts/
Paul