Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way

[William]

> 
> o) AFAIK gnome3 is a supported desktop environment under FreeBSD (?).
> Are there, besides KDE which I don't like for personal reasons, any
> reasonable alternatives providing similar features like Gnome?
> 

Try the port for MATE: its a fork of gnome 2. A few little bits need some tweaking but it works very well and is very stable.

Sincerely

William