Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way

[William]

> On 8 Jan 2015, at 02:19, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
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>> 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 ;-)
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> 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. 


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