Re: Please test gnome-shell 3.18.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

2016-06-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > A bugfix update for gnome-shell for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been released > as a proposed update. It needs someone to test it and give feedback so > that the Ubuntu developers can decide whether to release it as an > update for all Ubuntu 16.04 L

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME and Snaps/Flatpak

2016-06-15 Thread Bernard Tremblay
For the flatpak, it relies on a runtime of gnome version 3.20 actually. When you will start an app on your current gnome 3.18, the runtime will replace the gnome-session with the 3.20 version. I don't think you could replace gdm since it's a service not an application. And if you have dependenci

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME and Snaps/Flatpak

2016-06-15 Thread Leo Francisco
Yep, I assumed that would the case for the GNOME shell itself but I was thinking it could be more useful for the apps. I know Ubuntu GNOME ships a lot of the older GNOME apps, Nautilus is 3.14.3 etc. Is this due to dependency incompatibilities with the Ubuntu repos? Sounds like a lot of work to k

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 13:29 +0100, Adam Eveleigh wrote: > >Snaps are already supported in the 16.04 base, you can play with them > >now. It's just an idea, but maybe either snaps or XDG would make it > >easier to run the latest version of GNOME 3 desktop/apps under Ubuntu. > Yes I like that idea.

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11

2016-06-15 Thread Adam Eveleigh
>Snaps are already supported in the 16.04 base, you can play with them >now. It's just an idea, but maybe either snaps or XDG would make it >easier to run the latest version of GNOME 3 desktop/apps under Ubuntu. >Leo Yes I like that idea. It could be more stable for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users to use

Re: Flatpak

2016-06-15 Thread Leo Francisco
Snaps are already supported in the 16.04 base, you can play with them now. It's just an idea, but maybe either snaps or XDG would make it easier to run the latest version of GNOME 3 desktop/apps under Ubuntu. Leo On 14/06/16 17:10, Adam Eveleigh wrote: > Ah, iirc that's GNOME's Snappy equivalen