Gnome Shell on Ubuntu Maverick beta
I just upgraded my system to Ubuntu Maverick, that will become Ubuntu
10.10 in october. While it will ship with the default window manager,
Gnome Shell is available from official repository so is super easy to
install it from the Software Center.
two screenshot. Pressing the SUPER button (or, sic, the windows
button..) you can access the "Activities" view. This view is
activable also going to the top-left of the screen with the mouse
pointer. On the top left there is the search field: writing there you look for
the applications. Or you can press the "applications" button to
explode them all (last screenshot). Under those elements, always on
the left, there are the open applications, some notable folders and
disks and the recent documents.
The center of the screen is the actual desktop, which is temporary
reduced reduced to left space to the activities pane and to the area
to switch from one desktop to another, at the bottom.
The second shot shows the desktop in it's normal size, which has just
a black bar at the top. Let's dig into the top bar. "Activities" show
the activities view we just talked about. Then there is the logo and
title of the actually open window, that is no more on the application
bar. Then the clock on the center and on the right the system tray
that is showing: tweetdeck, skype, tomboy notes, the Empathy multi
chat instant messanger, the wifi connection and the system menu.
Please also note that the opened application is the last nightly build
of Firefox 4, feafuring tabs on top, the four button interface (back,
forward, stop/reload, home), the search box and the location field on
the right and the button to toggle the tab sets view on the very right
of the tabs.
faster compared to Compiz, at least in perceived smoothness of the
user interface. To activate the gnome shell window manager in Ubuntu Maverick, just
install it from the Software Center and run "gnome-shell --replace"
from the command runner, that is activated with ALT-F2.
Ah, the command runner in gnome shell is amazing, what I always dreamed. From now on Gnome Shell is my default window manager.
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