Re: more thoughts on compact view

[Aaron Honeycutt <aaronhoneycutt outlook com>]

On 8/21/2012 9:44 PM, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Aaron Honeycutt 
> <aaronhoneycutt outlook com> wrote:
> > On 8/21/2012 6:26 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:10:31PM +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > >> As Nautilus is not a new application in the experimental stage, I 
> > would
> > >> definitely appreciate more explanations for such major changes in the
> > >> commit messages and/or bug reports, though. The main argument in the
> > > IMO the 3.6 version should be considered experimental. Not in the 
> > amount
> > > of crashers or anything, but it works in a totally different way.
> > >
> > Is there a development version of GNOME applications like Nautilus 
> > for Ubuntu.
>
> Aaron,
>
> the development (i.e. alpha/beta) build of the upcoming Ubuntu release 
> includes the development versions of  most GNOME applications.  For 
> example, the last Ubuntu release was Precise (12.04) and the upcoming 
> release is Quantal (12.10).  At the moment the Quantal alpha includes 
> Nautilus 3.5.90 (i.e. the latest development release), gedit 3.5.1, 
> Epiphany 3.5.4 and so on.  The easiest way to run this is to install 
> the Ubuntu daily build (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/) 
> and then use software updates to keep up to date.  The Ubuntu 
> prereleases are quite stable; I've been running Quantal for at least a 
> month now with no major problems.
>
> In theory you could use jhbuild to build GNOME 3.5 on Ubuntu Precise, 
> but I find it *much* easier and faster to simply run the development 
> version of Ubuntu.  Hope this helps -
>
> adam
Adam,

I do know that the next release of Ubuntu does have the next release of 
GNOME applications. But thank you for the reply. I was just curious 
about Nautilus version that Ubuntu will ship. Currently I am running 
GNOME Shell and more GNOME apps on my MacBook with Ubuntu.

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