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 keep stuff working when you could just use upstream via these new package formats. Something to keep an eye on perhaps. All the best Leo On 15/06/16 16:54, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. It could be more stable for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS >> users to use more recent GNOME applications via Flatpak rather than >> the PPA (the PPA could be kept, but if it works well then perhaps >> Flatpak should be the recommended option). > First, my understanding of the GNOME3 Staging PPA is that it's a > testing area for the next release of Ubuntu GNOME. People using that > PPA are, to some extent, volunteering to help test the next Ubuntu > GNOME release. > > I think switching to snaps would defeat that purpose, unless we plan to > switch the base Ubuntu GNOME installation to snaps. > > Second, I'm not at all sure that putting the entire desktop in a snap > would work. I mean, how do you get the system to start the display > manager in the snap instead of the one on the system? Or if you decide > you'll use the system GDM, how do you tell it to start the desktop > (gnome-session/gnome-shell/etc.) in the snap? And is it always the > case that the dbus etc. interactions will be compatible? > > The desktop is infrastructural, not a separable app that can easily be > dropped into a container with limited access to other aspects of the > system. I'm not sure I see how these new-fangled package formats would > work with something like that. > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
