Upgrade to Gnome 3.10

[mayagrafix]

I have two user-accounts at loggin, one with Ubuntu-Unity and another with Ubuntu-Gnome Flashback (installed by using sudo apt-get install GNOME-desktop). Is it possible to upgrade the user-account with Gnome Desktop (DE) to the latest version, 3.10 or 3.12 without screwing up the Unity part?

Thanks for any help.

[mayagrafix]

OK, after some diggin I found out that Gnome Flashback is a fork of Gnome v2.0 (similar to MATE) and that it is not compatible with the recently released 3.12, but it is light on resources. Guess Ill have to figure out another way to try GNOME 3.12

[Frogs Hair]

14.04 will have a newer version of Gnome and is being released on April 17. The Gnome PPAs work well for some users and not others. Down grading even if using the PPA purge can be difficult. Gnome 3.12 was released on 3-26-2014 and won't make it into 14.04.

[deadflowr]

If upgrading gnome via ppa, then from my own experience, I would say unity itself usually comes out of it less scathed than other things.
Like the gnome desktops(shell/classic-whatever fallback is), or programs like nautlius or gnome-terminal.
So unity might work and function like normal, but everything else is borked.
This, of course, can go in the other direction (I haven't seen it this way, myself)
where unity breaks, but the packages run amazingly well.

There's probably even better odds to say that nothing will break.

I guess to sum up, it's a coin flip.
Probably depending on how much of a moving target you are dealing with.