Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:23:36 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about GNOME update Message-ID: <CADLFttcvAc3rJAAGj5C-3gzR7-ySod7Chaofuj22UK4TBj82HA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tBraNzNB_nxdKUQvPCKxOf=ARfLuWb_eP3iMW_3_MRUg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHcdu2rHq9Zm1acYVthRTNSqYOcvLPYauuye9Yr=tt02v0-aAQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADLFtteG27Yiq99m0BtuyNHg3HWfUzRYMKungoH0ceTdvDGXjw@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1tBraNzNB_nxdKUQvPCKxOf=ARfLuWb_eP3iMW_3_MRUg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Jeremy Messenger > <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Olivier Duchateau >> <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I saw GNOME will be updated after 9.1 release. But I wonder if GNOME2 >>> will be always in ports tree, or replaced by Mate (or there will be >>> only GNOME3). >> >> The GNOME 2 will have to be deleted at some point though and replace >> to MATE (depend on how they go well). As for the applications that >> depend on GNOME 2 might have to be deleted too if they can't be >> compiled without GNOME 2 support. >> >>> Do you have an idea of which version of GLib ? >> >> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/glib20/ > > I have installed a VM wiht Mint 1.4 and the MATE environment. It is > progressing quite nicely and rather rapidly. They seem to have quite a > few people working on it. I'm very encouraged. It is quite usable now > and promises to get even better. > > I have also played a bit with Mint using the Cinnamon interface. It is > GTK3 based, but restores much of the look and feel of Gnome2. Like > Gnome2, it is very configurable, in fact, more configurable than > Gnome2. In many ways, I really like it, but have not used it as much > as MATE as it is quite different. I have created a Cinnamon port, but it is very out of date and I don't know if both will work with the current GNOME 3 though. http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/cinnamon.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/muffin.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/freebsd-cinnamon.png Maybe I can revisit Cinnamon port in some day, but I can't give any promise with people's health issue in my family. Right now, I am on my xmas break for two weeks and trying to work on PRs. > For those not familiar with it, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu due to > dissatisfaction with Unity and other things that were showing up in > Ubuntu. IMHO, it is a huge improvement on Ubuntu, but maintains most > of it's ease of use character while allowing the user to adjust it to > his or her preferences and work techniques. > > I'm looking forward to running MATE on FreeBSD before too long. > > Thanks for all of you work on this, Mezz! You're welcome! The MATE 1.5.x (aka 1.6) has changed a lot with the dependency. I think we probably should wait for 1.6 to get into FreeBSD ports tree, so that way the users don't have to deal with the crazy update. They have following removed: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:1.6#removed_packages While I am here, just saw a great news for MATE: http://mate-desktop.org/2012/12/27/thank-you-first-colo/ > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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