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GNOME Shell 2.91: Installing in Ubuntu 10.10

Posted 10-23-2010 at 04:56 PM by Kenny_Strawn
Updated 10-23-2010 at 07:20 PM by Kenny_Strawn

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/gnome...o-reality.html

According to this article, GNOME Shell is making more progress than I originally thought. However, Shell 2.91 is not in the original location that I thought it was in.

I once thought that the version of GS in Florian Müellner's screenshot wasn't uploaded to Git -- yet. When I submitted a bug saying that changes to the Shell weren't getting pushed to GNOME Git, I got pointed to this:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-sh...rview-relayout

Apparently, Florian Müellner's screenshot is of a version of GS in the Git repos -- but in a completely self-contained branch of GNOME Shell.

Ah, the irony. Well, I currently am building it right now.

Here's what I had to add to my .jhbuildrc to get this branch instead of the default:

Code:
repos['git.gnome.org/gnome-shell'] = 'git.gnome.org/gnome-shell overview-relayout'
Now, I can't wait for GS to fully build. Hopefully, it will build correctly. I will be sure to post another blog entry describing my experience.

Follow the same instructions as for this article, but after the shell setup script auto-generates the ~/.jhbuildrc, edit it by adding the line described above. Then, it's JHBuild as usual.

If you have GTK RGBA enabled, however, you might need to do some more editing. Open the shell setup script (gnome-shell-build-setup.sh) in Gedit and find the line where it checks for the GNOME version. Change it to this:

Code:
gnome_version=`gnome-session --version 2> /dev/null | grep [23].* | cut -c 15,16,17,18,19,20`
Now, save the setup script and run it, proceeding to edit the .jhbuildrc file (to include the above line) when it is written.

After you are all done, you would see GNOME Shell like Florian sees it.
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