Ubuntu gnome and ppas

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:20:55PM AEST, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Dear Pavel, it seems that the Gnome PPA provide for now some 3.18 update and
> I'm not sure about the migration to Gnome 3.20.

Whether the latest GNOME is usable on Ubuntu depends largely on the version
of GTK in Ubuntu, and the GNOME 3 PPA. The problem with shipping the
latest GTK in the GNOME 3 PPA is that it will break a lot of applications
in the archive, mostly theming, but possibly other things too, given that
Canonical heavily, and I mean heavily, patches GTK.

I think at this point, if you want the best vanilla GNOME experience,
you are better off using another distro, Debian being the most likely
candidate, since it uses debs, apt-get, etc.

Its also a big stretch for me to try and look after the accessibility of
Ubuntu proper, and 2 community flavours, given that they all have their
own quirks and issues I have to deal with or work around.

Luke