I experimented with GNOME Shell 3.4 from a PPA (https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/testing) on Trisquel 5.5. It is an unsupported and testing PPA and therefore I would advise anyone with Trisquel 5.5 not to use it because things will break.
There were 2 things that I am aware of so far that broke: * The GTK part of the Trisquel theme went crazy. I thought that maybe something changed in the theming procedure between Shell 3.2 and 3.4 but I don't think so anymore. It is most likely that the GTK rendering libraries aren't playing well with this mix of packages. I just changed the GTK theme to Adwaita for now. * Totem is using a strange dark theme. I looked at the GTK3 and GTK2 theme and both are set to Trisquel's theme. The bigger problem is that I can no longer play Flash videos in the browser as before. I used Trisquel 5.5 out of the box to play Flash videos and I had no problem. Now when a Flash video appears in a website I can see part of the Totem GUI but the buttons are unresponsive. When I click on Play it hangs completely. On the positive side: I did not get any graphical corruptions so far. I did get a glitch in Nautilus once but none of the issues I mentioned in my first post. However, switching between Overview and the desktop is still a little choppy sometimes. As far as extensions are concerned: The GNOME Shell extension website now shows me the word "OUTDATED" for extensions that are old or not available for Shell 3.4. When an update is available, it shows an icon that gets the compatible version. I updated a few extensions and there were no problems. However, it seems some extensions do not have Shell 3.4 versions yet. But those extensions aren't too important (to me). Another nice thing is that from 3.4 onwards, the extensions can provide a GUI for some settings. I am not going to look for solutions to the above problems because it was only an experiment. As soon as I get my bigger hard drive I am going to reinstall Trisquel 5.5 (this time from an official release version) and run it with Shell 3.2 without all the other PPA's. I also intend to install Ubuntu 12.04 to experiment with an "official" GNOME Shell 3.4 implementation in anticipation of Trisquel 6.0. I know Parabola has 3.4 already but I want to use it from Trisquel's base. -- Morne Alberts
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