Anyone tried Gnome 3.14 on Ubuntu 14.10 already?

[ichi]

Just wondering if it's just me or if the small bugs I'm experiencing are actually common in the current state of Gnome Shell 3.14 on vanilla Ubuntu.

 

I'm using the gnome stagging PPA. At first I also added ricotz testing, but today the gnome shell package was updated there and stopped working for me, so I purged the ricotz PPA.

These bugs were present both before and after purging that, anyway.

 

I've only noticed these so far:

 

- Somewhat weird shadows. I know they implemented some sort of new z-axis stuff with window shadows on gtk3.14, not sure if this is it but it definitely looks strange. GTK3 apps have normal shadows when they aren't focused, but when they are they "rise up" and look like this:

 

 

- Missing icons. In the screenshot above for nautilus, there should be a hamburger icon on the menu button right on the left of the window buttons. They are also missing in some other places like the comboboxes on gnome-tweak:

 

 

- The down arrow on the right of the dropdown menus on the top bar is now showing as an aparently random icon, depending on what icon theme I use. With some themes like Adwaita there just no icon there, with Numix-Circle I get this:

 

 

 

I haven't found anyone reporting anything like this. Have any of you installed this and found something similar/different?

 

 

Other that that, transitions to and from the overview feel a lot smoother now on 3.14, so I'm not sure about going back to 3.12  :/ the bugs aren't showstoppers, they are just ugly.

I know I'd be better off going with GS on Ubuntu Gnome or, better yet, a whole different distro like Fedora, but I don't feel like reinstalling now.

[cTrox]

I'm experiencing the exact same issues with Gnome 3.14 on Ubuntu Gnome 14.10.

A workaround for the missing arrow icon for the numix circle icon theme is to remove the pan.svg. (./48x48/apps/pan.svg)

[ichi]

I'm experiencing the exact same issues with Gnome 3.14 on Ubuntu Gnome 14.10.

A workaround for the missing arrow icon for the numix circle icon theme is to remove the pan.svg. (./48x48/apps/pan.svg)

 

Cool, thanks, much better now  (Y)

 

 

I didn't find the old down-arrow icon, so I made a new one.

 

 

*just found out that with some GTK themes I don't have the window shadow bug, not sure if it's because they support GTK3.14 or because they actually don't  :huh: I'm using Iris Light and it's working fine.

[simonlang]

i would love to but even the normal ubuntu 14.10 won't boot in my virtual box i am gonna give it a try again as i would love to try the new gnome out, the gnome promo iso also fails to boot in virtual box. annyoing as hell :/

[ichi]

I didn't try on VirtualBox, but the promo iso worked fine on VMware Player.

[Max Norris]

Ditto with VMWare Workstation, toyed with 14.10 briefly, seemed to work well enough. (Very briefly, still not a fan of Gnome. Pretty though.)

[simonlang]

today another try another failure ... beta 2 of ubuntu 14.10 does just not work in virtualbox for me.... installation is fine but it just won't boot... gave it about 100mg of graphics ram and enabled 3d acceleration no luck there. :(

[simonlang]

i am currently running the fedora 21 alpha in virtualbox which also includes the latest gnome. what shall i say? it's nice, sure, but still annoying: nautilus is useless and castrated, i replaced it with nemo, which made things a little bit better.

still no dark mode for firefox, such a no go. thanks to the gnome-tweak-tool i have my minimize and maximize buttons back, i like the gnome extensions (if they are not broken), but some things feel just missing, i get a better work flow with KDE.

this is kinda fascinating as i started with gnome when running ubuntu 10.04 and loved everything, but times have changed. and i just prefer to do sudo apt-get whatever instead of manually entering su and then wait till the yum installer (which is quite a bit slower) finishes it's work.