Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 21:59 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> I've found out about Gnome Tracker. It looks like what I've looked
> for in KDE, the difference being that it (seems to) actually work
> (really! ;-) ). I'm wondering if this project has made big progress
> in the past year. Progress which would be missing in 18.04 LTS.

Some info on this can be found here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/blob/master/NEWS

> Are there Gnome PPAs, which let you install the latest Gnome

Not as far as I'm aware.

GNOME has a very wide set of parts that all work together, both
applications in the foreground and frameworks that the applications
rely on in the background, so updating just one of them is very
unlikely to be successful.  Some GNOME applications don't maintain
backward-compatibility even one release back.  Those that do maintain
backward-compatibility rarely do so for MORE than one release back.

The effort of providing a PPA that could update the entirety of GNOME
is not something anyone has undertaken.