Trying out gnome-shell on Ubuntu 10.04
Gnome Shell is the new Gnome 3 window manager. It is available in the yum and apt-get repositories. The tow panels are replaced by a single top panel to choose applications and calendar. The time is no longer displayed by default. As of this writing, Canonical does not have plans to ship Gnome 3 is Ubuntu 10.10.
Impressions
Gnome 3 is a fine window manager. However, the system resources from the Javascript and other code base are much to heavy on system resources. One of the main reasons that I love Linux is that it is a simple and lightweight operating system. However, Gnome 3 requires me to have a beefy graphics card. Otherwise, the motions are a bit choppy. For now, Gnome 3 is still in its development stage.
Try out Gnome 3
Using Terminal, type the following.
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell --replace
When you are done testing, simple Cntrl-C and you will go back to your own Gnome or default manager. You can make Gnome Shell your default manager by typing the following statement into Terminal
ln -s /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell.desktop ~/.config/autostart/gnome-shell.desktop
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