From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 12 2:13:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netrinsics.com (unknown [210.74.177.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC463150BD for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) id SAA34681; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:07:54 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:07:54 +0800 (CST) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <199903121007.SAA34681@netrinsics.com> To: stanb@awod.com, steveo@iol.ie Subject: RE: Help with gnomecontrlcenter port Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes: > x11/gnome is the meta port for the whole shebang. I'm still trying to >figure out what the fuss is about, so far it looks like a lot of code for not >much result (surely I'm missing something). Mostly it's goodies for developers at this point (e.g., if you want to bang together a quicky GUI app, there's no quicker way than using the Python Gnome/GTK+ bindings). Down the road, there will be a robust draggable, droppable, all interoperable personal productivity environment ala Microsoft. For now, you can try playing with gnumeric. -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message