Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:37:18 +0200 From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16 coming soon Message-ID: <7daacbbe0608281037g341dbb83k6a01699bb901bcb3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1156484388.27932.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1156484388.27932.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Hi, On 8/25/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@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@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. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."
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