From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 5 15:10:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC4A2708 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (smtprelay05.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A3461315 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [80.67.16.118] (helo=webmail.df.eu) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1VoaZb-0007NA-0i for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:10:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:10:39 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 =?UTF-8?Q?port=3F?= In-Reply-To: References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> Message-ID: <57cd35243ed489e9f5870195edfe97e7@mhoenicka.de> X-Sender: markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail X-Df-Sender: bWFya3VzLmhvZW5pY2thQG1ob2VuaWNrYS5kZQ== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:10:47 -0000 On 2013-12-05 15:41, Fernando Apesteguía was heard to say: > El 05/12/2013 15:30, "iijima yoshino" > escribió: >> >> 在 2013-12-05四的 15:13 +0100，Luca Ferrari写道： >> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:33 AM, iijima yoshino > wrote: >> > > Firstly, I know gnome3 needs systemd and systemd needs Linux. So ... >> > > whatever. >> > > I thought it's impossible to make gnome3 run on BSD systems, but the >> > > OpenBSD shocked me! Wow, Gnome 3.8! You know, they're kind of freaks. >> > > And now the PCBSD announced a next image which includes > Gnome3/Cinnamon >> > > desktops. Therefore it's not impossible. >> > > So why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gonme3 port? >> > > >> > >> > There is at least one port, but I'm not sure it is actively >> > maintained: > http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/gnome3/ >> > Besides, I believe that having or not having Gnome3 on *BSD is more a >> > political issue (being Gnome tied to Linux) and to have developers to >> > test and maintain the port. >> > >> > Luca >> >> 2 years ago, what a shame. >> Even the OpenBSD team accepts the Gnome3 ... >> It seems the FreeBSD towards to a server-oriented way. > > Not really. But porting something that shows no interest in supporting > anything but Linux is both difficult and tiring. And it may not be worth the effort unless there is sufficient pressure from FreeBSD users who request Gnome 3. I've tested Gnome 3 briefly on a Linux box, and since then I understand very well why there is no such pressure. I was back to Xfce in no time. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38