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Subject: Re: mate-conf-editor port?
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On 29-7-2015 23:16, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On my Mint Linux system I make periodic use of the mate-conf-editor to
> adjust settings someone felt were not ones the typical user would want to
> adjust. It was dangerous, but very handy for those little tweaks that make
> the desktop work JUST the way you like.
>
> I can't find  port of this tool for FreeBSD. Is it available? If not, I may
> look into porting it myself, though I have not done a port since the major
> re-work of the port system, and porting some of the Gnome2 stuff was
> tricky, especially for someone who has not done serious programming in
> about two decades. It would be really nice if someone has already done work
> on it.
> --

I found it but it seems which seems abandon.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-conf-editor .
Since mate is using glib schema's you could use dconf-editor which only
needs gtk30 as extra depends.

-Koop