HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16 coming soon

[Phillip Neumann]

Hello.

This is how my notebook looks.

Spanish.
Computer
Disk usage.
Volume manager.
Evince
and a little toy :-)

http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pantallazoft0.png


the battery thing works greate btw!


good luck!


KillFill

El lun, 28-08-2006 a las 19:37 +0200, Dominique Goncalves escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/25/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> > --
> > Joe Marcus Clarke
> > FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
> > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
> >
> >
> >
> 
> This is a screenshot of my desktop, with french locales, deskbar
> applets, listening radiofg with bmp and eog with holiday picture from
> Portugal :-)
> 
> http://djdomics.free.fr/FreeBSD/gnome/gnome-2.16.png
> 
> Regards.
>