I've tried installing a few apps and the session from current AUR packages. It does show up as a "Pantheon session" which you can select and boot into from the GDM.

But there are lots of ugly dependencies, and I don't think the packages on AUR are complete or even up-to-date. What you end up with is a half-baked desktop that doesn't work like eOS (some packages are missing, and some of the installable ones just don't work like they should), or even look like eOS (since eGTK doesn't work with GTK 3.6, and there are some font rendering differences).

Besides, elementary OS is still under development and the "Pantheon shell" or those "elementary apps" haven't reached a stable release yet, so I think it should be a good while before someone's willing to patch and maintain all the packages like some really nice people here do for Unity.

Last edited by illusionmist (2013-01-02 16:58:30)