How to maximize screen real-estate in Gnome3

Upgraded to Gnome 3 yesterday, only to find that my cherished panels are gone, and the title bar of windows are super bulky.
Could someone educate me about how to make use of the black panel on the top or completely hide it?
I read somewhere on the gnome official site that they have the plan to merge the titlebar and the top panel. Is this in testing now?
Thanks a lot!

frank604 wrote:
Hi,
I've had similar issues.  However, visit:
http://gnome-shell.deviantart.com/blog/39651253/
to learn more about using old metacity themes from gtk2 to work with Gnome 3 (shell). 
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/03/custom … shell.html
to understand how to edit the settings in gnome 3 shell
http://bone.twbbs.org.tw/blog/archives/2148#comments
to get some app indicators up on the top panel instead of the auto-hide bottom panel that you can see when you mouse over bottom-right of your screen or when you press super key or open activities.  read my comments on this page to make it work with current version as of today gnome.
http://half-left.deviantart.com/
one of the best shell theme maker currently, also search through #gnome-shell in deviant art, I use a theme called dark glass and it is very nice.
Good luck and I will post more here if I think of anything else.
I was only aware of 2 and 4. Thanks for the portal!

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