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Kushal
Asked: 2011-05-07 01:41:26 +0800 CST

Small issues after installing Gnome 3 (via PPA)

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After considering all the risks of using GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 11.04, I installed GNOME 3 via PPA. Fortunately, my system is working fine after the installation, but following are three issues which I want to fix.

  • Evolution is still not updated to 3.0, thus it is using NotifyOSD to notify about new mails.
  • Empathy is updated to 3.0 but is not using modern GNOME 3 notification system.
  • Ubuntu still uses Old network manager instead of that of GNOME 3, thus, it is not integrated well with entire desktop.

Also, I wanted to know that how can I make Ubuntu 11.04 completely stock GNOME 3, including all the default applications that it is using.

11.04

2 Answers

  1. If you want a 100% stock GNOME3 desktop, then I guess it won't be possible right now on Ubuntu. You have 2 options:

    1) Live with those minor issues for a few more months, then move to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric where you'll have stock GNOME3 + Shell as an option.

    2) Change to another distro such as Fedora until Oneiric is ready with its thing.

    BTW, why is notify-osd coming up? In my case the GNOME shell notifications come with Evolutions. Are you sure the notifications are notify-osd ones? Do they come at the top right or bottom right?

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  2. You can install Evolution 3.0 by two methods

    1. By converting fedora 15 evolution3.0 rpm packages using alien.

    2. By adding the debian experimental repository

      deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main

    As for the other two, its difficult to get as Ubuntu 11.04 is built on top of 2.32. I have not compiled Gnome3 from source. Perhaps you could try that and see if it gives better result.

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