HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16 coming soon

[Franz Klammer]

This weekend i installed 2.16 ans all my other ports
new. everything works fine, the only things i've found
(resp. where i can remeber) are:

* gedit and opera didn't appear in the menue.
* thunderbird-dictionaries-20060220 still looking
   in /usr/X11R6 for a installed thunderbird
* nautilus-actions seems not working - i don't see
   anything related in the context menues.
* Battery Status Applet tells me every time "System
   runs with power supply no battery available" ¹)

that's all so far.

Excelent work like every time!!
Many thanks to all who made it possible!

by the way:
http://www.webonaut.com/temp/gnome/splash_216.png ;-)
it's the same as my last 2.14 only ther veriosn number has been raised.

/franz

¹) translated by me from german

Joe Marcus Clarke schrieb:
> GNOME 2.15.92 (aka 2.16 Release Candidate 1) was released today, and the
> FreeBSD port in the MarcusCom CVS repository
> (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html) has been updated as
> well.  I'm not saying everyone should run and install this.  In fact, I
> would caution against it unless you really know what you're in for.
> 
> Why?  Well, a lot has changed for the FreeBSD GNOME port.  On the hip,
> cool side, we now offer a working port of HAL.  But that's not a reason
> NOT to get GNOME 2.15.  The big reason is that we have [finally] decided
> to switch PREFIXes from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.  What this means is that
> all ports that depend on cairo need to be rebuilt (as well as a few
> others).  It also currently means some conflicts with KDE.  So unless
> you're really brave, it would probably be best to wait for the official
> release when he hope to have a better set of [tested and safe] upgrade
> instructions.
> 
> So why am I telling you all this?  Two reasons really.  One is, of
> course, to warn you about what's coming.  The other is to solicit some
> cool GNOME 2.16 screenshots from those already testing out GNOME 2.15
> and have some creative juices.
> 
> Joe
> 
> P.S. GNOME 2.16 will most likely be released during the 6.2 ports
> freeze.  But even if it isn't, we will probably not merge it right away
> so we can do some QA after the release dust settles.  I'm thinking of
> hosting an IRC testing and debugging party around that time for people
> interested.