From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 12:17:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B69116A41F for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:17:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (fly.ebs.gr [62.103.84.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5202443D46 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:17:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jA5CHA9V015870 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:17:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.200] (pptp.ebs.gr [10.1.1.200]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jA5CHPVk078208 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:17:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <436CA295.4040206@ebs.gr> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:16:21 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051008) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnome Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: A few suggestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:17:15 -0000 While performing my upgrade to gnome 2.12.1, I noticed that in the FAQ there is a mention of using cvsup for updating the ports tree. Perhaps we could add a mention of portsnap as well, now that it is in the base system. On another note, I've been using a few FreeBSD-specific gnome/gtk apps that improve the usability of the system and the integration with the desktop environment, like sysutils/thefish, sysutils/gtk-send-pr and even sysutils/bpm. The thing is, someone who hasn't been using FreeBSD for a long time, is unlikely to be aware of their existence. If they could be included in gnome2-power-tools or somesuch (gnome2-freebsd-tools, gnome2-system-tools?), chances are they could be spotted more easily. I suspect there might be others among the 13000 ports I haven't discovered yet and I personally have some plans for some new ones. It would be nice if there could be a metaport to host them all. Regards, Panagiotis