GNOME Shell, Mutter Move One Step Forward

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell, Mutter Move One Step Forward

In readying for the GNOME 3.1.4 development release, there's new development builds available for the GNOME Shell and Mutter -- two of the key components of the GNOME 3 desktop...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTcyNA

[allquixotic]

Are they available on Ubuntu without building from source? I'm feeling extremely unmotivated to build Gnome and dependencies from source lately.

[liam]

Are they available on Ubuntu without building from source? I'm feeling extremely unmotivated to build Gnome and dependencies from source lately.

Try fedora since Ubuntu is pretty far behind with regards to gnome development.You can try building it using jhbuild (EXTREMELY simple b/c it is basically automated) but I had issues with it when I used Ubuntu (and judging by the mailing lists I'm far from the only one). Go to the gnome shell page for more info.