From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 28 19:23:44 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 18A2D298 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:23:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com (mail-vc0-f173.google.com [209.85.220.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42478FC1B for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id f13so11048808vcb.4 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:23:36 -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=bfgjtu+ndz+JEM4ttBQXFU0/PwgYUbUV/Byu0Dn4OWM=; b=z5y/fagOZ+v/BGQ4PLK8pBjuvgMsNM1WAaf+63N2B12WbAAEoriHqinjJzjuwqHzml GE+/hWMge2PtIsneAJKI+/9GAbXUHouz8xZJtYBiDQk1A0QQyxTivyqjuPrUBvB4DQ6g 5fNXGyKgOF6XmWahsSY0hUDMs3Pt4t8e6BN2TNAz/w5w9zkZYtL5ecqT5RIdKG15v8qD bNnlLCME1YOcfJxmbe4GMSAo6tFAjJ0w2LhVh/BaJ3aZtkyGpWFvFjZnb2VvMZ1bW/Ey RcXHVId1W3D5x8xM9if7SP3wzzL8TBiAsABNYU+quIjR/T4SGp3h1mVKvwi/s0FPOsq0 LLOA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.118.115 with SMTP id kl19mr37989331veb.6.1356722616871; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.189.36 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:23:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:23:36 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Questions about GNOME update From: Jeremy Messenger To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 19:23:44 -0000 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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. I have created a Cinnamon port, but it is very out of date and I don't know if both will work with the current GNOME 3 though. http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/cinnamon.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/muffin.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/freebsd-cinnamon.png Maybe I can revisit Cinnamon port in some day, but I can't give any promise with people's health issue in my family. Right now, I am on my xmas break for two weeks and trying to work on PRs. > 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! You're welcome! The MATE 1.5.x (aka 1.6) has changed a lot with the dependency. I think we probably should wait for 1.6 to get into FreeBSD ports tree, so that way the users don't have to deal with the crazy update. They have following removed: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:1.6#removed_packages While I am here, just saw a great news for MATE: http://mate-desktop.org/2012/12/27/thank-you-first-colo/ > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org