Owen Taylor wrote:
So, basically, no I don't see a way that GNOME Shell coexists with Compiz other than as two separate shells for the GNOME desktop.
IMHO, rather than looking for gnome-shell to work with compiz or another VM, one should rather try and make a way for applets to work on gnome-shell and, say, compiz-shell (which would then mostly be a receptacle for those applets)