Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:23:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43445 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401072123.s07LN3Yl003278@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jan 7 21:23:03 2014 New Revision: 43445 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43445 Log: - Add 2013Q4 status report for the Xfce ports Submitted by: olivierd Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 7 18:52:44 2014 (r43444) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 7 21:23:03 2014 (r43445) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 5 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 6 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ <description>Userland Programs</description> </category> + <category> + <name>ports</name> + + <description>Ports</description> + </category> + <project cat='proj'> <title>CBSD</title> @@ -301,4 +307,79 @@ </ul> </body> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Xfce/&os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>&os; Xfce Team</name> + <email>xfce@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce">The &os; Xfce Team's wiki page</url> + <url href="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce-core-unstable.html">Core</url>; + <url href="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/parole-unstable.html">Parole</url>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and + Unix-like platforms, such as &os;. It aims to be fast and + lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to + use. The &os; Xfce Team has kept most of Xfce ports up-to-date, + while fixed many issues along the way in this quarter.</p> + + <p>Currently, the following components with the following versions + are available:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Applications:</li> + + <ul> + <li>Orage (4.10.0)</li> + <li>Midori (0.5.6)</li> + <li>xfce4-terminal (0.6.3)</li> + <li>xfce4-parole (0.5.3, 0.5.4)</li> + </ul> + + <li>Panel plugins:</li> + + <ul> + <li>xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0)</li> + <li>xfce4-mailwatch-plugin (1.2.0)</li> + <li>xfce4-wmdock-plugin (0.6.0)</li> + </ul> + </ul> + + <p>We helped Midori's upstream to switch from Waf (Python script) + to CMake. Xfce now also supports Gtk2, Gtk3, and the new + WebKitGtk API, available from the 2.x branch, not present in our + ports tree at the moment, though. Most of the ports now use + stage directories, only some plugins left to convert.</p> + + <p>We also removed obsolete ports:</p> + + <ul> + <li><tt>x11-themes/lila-xfwm4</tt> (Xfwm4 theme)</li> + <li><tt>multimedia/xfce4-media</tt> (multimedia player)</li> + <li><tt>net-im/xfce4-messenger-plugin</tt></li> + </ul> + + <p>Besides, we followed the development of the Xfce core + components and Parole closely. See the links for documentation + on how to upgrade those libraries.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Fix Midori's build on DragonFly, through DPorts.</task> + + <task>Fix build of the Granite framework (it is an extension to + Gtk and Midori uses it) on &os; 10 and <tt>head</tt>. + Those are mostly LLVM failures.</task> + + <task>Add support for Berkeley DB 5 and higher to Orage.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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