Questions about GNOME update

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Jeremy Messenger
> <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Olivier Duchateau
>> <duchateau.olivier at 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I have created a Cinnamon port, but it is very out of date and I don't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 at gmail.com



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