Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 07:58:33 +1030 From: William <william@firstyear.id.au> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <242E4555-34DC-4189-BEF9-1A79823B534A@firstyear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20150107164934.e0f45beb.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAPeCvyLiYDETAoQ3C4Cmbn9UcuxOxy3n9y3Jy%2B6rSBCfCL-S_Q@mail.gmail.com> <63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20150107153505.GB26903@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20150107164934.e0f45beb.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> On 8 Jan 2015, at 02:19, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:35:05 +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> Thanks much for the info wrt Gnome3. Taking a look at the screenshots >> for Gnome3 vs. mate the decision was clear for me: Mate. >>=20 >> I did a "pkg install mate" today and after upgrading the rest of my >> packages to latest versions mate is running and from what I've seen so >> far it's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. You were right >> - it's a desktop environment for working not an eye candy ;-) >=20 > I'd like to ask two questions: >=20 > 1. Is automounting working, either with HAL/DBUS or > with automounter from ports? >=20 > 2. Is there support for german language? >=20 > If both can be answered with "yes", it's probably a good > choice to recommend the use of Mate for german users who > want something stable and usable. While I have been "solving" > this problem with a "normal" Gnome 2 installation in the > past, it feels buggy and tends to dissolve over time... :-( Yes there is support but there is currently a bug with changing keyboard lay= outs on login that as a dvorak user, I am trying to solve.=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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