Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 22:59:23 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: William <william@firstyear.id.au> Cc: "gnome@freebsd.org" <gnome@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <CAN6yY1s%2Bp22RuWT-NzhEXp1E_BiRZddPk4V_MwO7G21Kb2wvnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9251A786-9105-4C09-B986-3D2B3ED74F31@firstyear.id.au> References: <CAPeCvyLiYDETAoQ3C4Cmbn9UcuxOxy3n9y3Jy%2B6rSBCfCL-S_Q@mail.gmail.com> <9251A786-9105-4C09-B986-3D2B3ED74F31@firstyear.id.au>
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:34 AM, William <william@firstyear.id.au> wrote: > > > > o) AFAIK gnome3 is a supported desktop environment under FreeBSD (?). > > Are there, besides KDE which I don't like for personal reasons, any > > reasonable alternatives providing similar features like Gnome? > > > > Try the port for MATE: its a fork of gnome 2. A few little bits need some > tweaking but it works very well and is very stable. > > Sincerely > > William > > I'll second this. It is worth noting that Gnome3 was a massive change to Gnome2. It has been slightly less controversial than systemd, but only slightly. I ran into in on a Linux VM and, after playing with it for a pretty short time, ran as fast as I could. It was a pretty simple transition. Some of your old friends have been forked and renamed. Atril was evince, caja was nautilus, mate-terminal was gnome-terminal, engrampa was file-roller, pluma was gedit, etc. The mate home page lists most or all of these. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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