From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 28 19:12:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D45F59 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com (mail-ee0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE85D8FC08 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f51.google.com with SMTP id d4so5234244eek.38 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:12:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=+n6Keph/mpCSCM+Axey0c5lcWoWfzb0Zq39IAgbZqK4=; b=b62Znox1HcXKWn+g1HkBBgl4mpzkttUOrtVKLCGXFrXQa7v0Tev9P6anpvHeE+MT7V K0wOv07pwRe6uLiTrzAMHcFpHbL6XKI5HojihFE5hojXkr+sFXwSkEvuB5gPdfaahfi8 +YjmZQitayGqSlc+/PXzPyhCFz0wtjPmsOUrpKKSTrLrL9ltlLml+AhH2m/A7uXBYOQW bi+XdePTYckBNTAE6iV5+g91BJrgILEdvJLMt6k2wu1cXZ9j3igLrOh2htmbLg+mgN9Z yci7muM23MKY1fTX6zCMfIDFh/kE1n/QgnotXt3WpM8YtUVIUka9SJiJMuOu8wcRiNJW aLUA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.194.199 with SMTP id m47mr88457666een.11.1356721952172; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.170.193 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:12:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:12:32 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Questions about GNOME update From: Kevin Oberman To: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: gnome@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:12:39 -0000 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Olivier Duchateau > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I saw GNOME will be updated after 9.1 release. But I wonder if GNOME2 >> will be always in ports tree, or replaced by Mate (or there will be >> only GNOME3). > > The GNOME 2 will have to be deleted at some point though and replace > to MATE (depend on how they go well). As for the applications that > depend on GNOME 2 might have to be deleted too if they can't be > compiled without GNOME 2 support. > >> Do you have an idea of which version of GLib ? > > http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/glib20/ I have installed a VM wiht Mint 1.4 and the MATE environment. It is progressing quite nicely and rather rapidly. They seem to have quite a few people working on it. I'm very encouraged. It is quite usable now and promises to get even better. I have also played a bit with Mint using the Cinnamon interface. It is GTK3 based, but restores much of the look and feel of Gnome2. Like Gnome2, it is very configurable, in fact, more configurable than Gnome2. In many ways, I really like it, but have not used it as much as MATE as it is quite different. For those not familiar with it, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu due to dissatisfaction with Unity and other things that were showing up in Ubuntu. IMHO, it is a huge improvement on Ubuntu, but maintains most of it's ease of use character while allowing the user to adjust it to his or her preferences and work techniques. I'm looking forward to running MATE on FreeBSD before too long. Thanks for all of you work on this, Mezz! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com