Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Volker Wysk]

Zitat von Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:

> 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

Lots of fixes...

>
>> 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.

I see.

Thanx,
Volker