GNOME 3 is good. A very attractive desktop. Some awesome features but all at the same time, didn't click as much as it expected. Even Linux Trovalds moved from Gnome 3 to Xfce and made an official statement that he doesn't like Gnome 3. But to me, GNOME 3 is cool and very attractive to look at. Very sexy. But then, there are drawbacks too. The desktop doesn't hold anything,you can never have any icons on your desktop (which i hate because my desktop is almost always full of icons), no built-in support to tweak the theme (some work-around is possible though), and panel management is quite poor.
The developers team has maintained its ppa repository from the early development version. The same repository now contains the fully finished Gnome 3. If you had problems earlier installing Gnome 3 from this repository, then you can probably try this again because the earlier versions were unstable and possible that it may not have worked before.
To install GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.04, execute the following in Terminal.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
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Here are some screenshots from my desktop -
GNOME 3 no matter how good it is, it is still kind of incomplete and I would like to stick with GNOME 2.
