Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:18:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: William <william@firstyear.id.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <20150108101849.4143eb55.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <242E4555-34DC-4189-BEF9-1A79823B534A@firstyear.id.au> 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> <242E4555-34DC-4189-BEF9-1A79823B534A@firstyear.id.au>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 07:58:33 +1030, William wrote: > > > > On 8 Jan 2015, at 02:19, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > >> 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. > >> > >> 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 ;-) > > > > I'd like to ask two questions: > > > > 1. Is automounting working, either with HAL/DBUS or > > with automounter from ports? > > > > 2. Is there support for german language? > > > > 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 layouts on login that as a dvorak user, > I am trying to solve. Regarding keyboard layout (a thing I hardly change during use) I prefer to either use xorg.conf to set it globally, or .xmodmap on a per-user basis (especially useful for programmable keyboards). By the way, does Mate still require HAL as a dependency? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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