Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:32:39 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1062477159.18925.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <opruuumd1i8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> References: <20030901152526.D89776@freebsdmall.com> <1062459309.18925.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <opruuumd1i8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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--=-HeaZrsqfsf/sfT5TMIW+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:26, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:35:10 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke=20 > <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote: > >> Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a FreeBSD > >> vs Linux segment. We've already got some ideas from the KDE guys > >> about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..). Do you have any > >> other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against Linux? The > >> producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on video. > > > > AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release. Gucharmap is also a nice > > bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application). > > Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer. Whateve= r > > you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work really well wit= h > > FreeBSD [yet]). I hear the GKrellM stuff is good. > > > > The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does > > net/netspeed_applet. Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice > > on FreeBSD. Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks very > > nice. I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect management too= l > > with a gantt interface. Totem plays video streams and DVDs nicely. > > Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo. I would also show off > > news/pan2 if you get a chance. It's been praised as one of the best > > looking and feeling GUIs out there. Also, deskutils/gdeskcal is nothin= g > > but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't ported yet :-(). Gaim is a nic= e >=20 > I have gDesklets 0.20 port in my local and it works great, but only one o= r=20 > two plugins that are working. The rest of them aren't working and I am=20 > still trying to figure how I can get them work. gDesklets will be useless= =20 > without those plugins, so should I go ahead send it to PR and worry about= =20 > plugins later? Or, should I just wait until I get most plugins work?=20 > Current, I only can get clock and digital plugins work fine, but haven't=20 > create the port of those yet. What's the problem with the other plug-ins? I would like to see at least the framework ported so others can get a chance to add plug-ins. >=20 > I am thinking about add a select script like what ghostscript and php=20 > have, but it's for gDesklets to choice which stuff plugins they want to=20 > have. gDesklets's plugins installtion and add in gDesklets system method=20 > suck, btw.. :-/ But, I think can do extract and install them by manual=20 > thought. I like the menu idea. Just remember to construct the port so that it builds a nice default package. >=20 > P.S. If anyone want to help, just let me know.. I will send you the=20 > gDesklets port and let you play with it. I don't really have a lot of time right now, so if it were added to the tree, that would be the best. Joe >=20 > Anyway, back to the point, I agree with what Joe has said everything in=20 > here. AbiWord2 and pan2 are the great apps to show off. :-) >=20 > Cheers, > Mezz >=20 > > functional app on FreeBSD, and also adds a little notification area > > icon. If you can, showing off gnomemeeting would be cool, too. > > > > Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more > > specific ideas. Let me know if you need help configuring, building, or > > setting up any of the GNOME stuff. > > > > Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-HeaZrsqfsf/sfT5TMIW+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/VB1nb2iPiv4Uz4cRAunjAJ93P/HAEqZlj7hYabON9ihSbNKbywCfdo0F SSllXHhmNoTmdWfZcev847g= =V9S5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HeaZrsqfsf/sfT5TMIW+--
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