GNOME 3.30 brings auto updates to Flatpaks

https://news.softpedia.com/news/gnome-3-30-desktop-will-finally-bring-automatic-updates-but-only-for-flatpaks-522302.shtml

Saw this and immediately thought this wold be great for snaps! Any plans for having snaps applications auto update in future Ubuntu releases?

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Snaps already automatically update in the background. I believe there are no plans to make it easy for users to opt out of that.

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As Jeremy said, snaps already auto-update. Here is more info on that feature and how to adjust it.

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GNOME 3.30 brings back desktop icons too

https://news.softpedia.com/news/gnome-3-30-brings-back-desktop-icons-with-nautilus-integration-wayland-support-522369.shtml

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Wow that’s great - this means 18.10 COULD also upgrade to 3.30 full stack :smiley:

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