From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 5 17:11:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D61FB76 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm7-vm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm7-vm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA5D21C93 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.230] by nm7.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2013 17:11:13 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.102] by tm11.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2013 17:11:13 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp139.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2013 17:11:13 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1386263473; bh=MDiT+blUL9T8EtCGn78KBrFIKJk6bVfxrqfnq3aAPRU=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CRisp6+wGaMKzK4BrxC7ZFNEHXMgmSpMSIpnbPLOewKwEt3UGphZuFfJrOF/XiZQCufym5FbZDO7D1Zg1x7TYJV23s+TTAdGjwqNBspkwtHieNHfh4oVqMQ+zWF/qy0uho7x+WWSQ1hyE4y2xTg4XVmKfxi9fI/xUMPHl8v5x/E= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 231833.52102.bm@smtp139.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: UrJyaowVM1lcayktew.D0eqCxzne.atJGLNePIW4PPf_bFB XIY8CSPJL2Shqmh4.fySQBoAQK2EUSrcqnQ5YkZHmK2ct9lhF14nqIrGRfq8 65F05y_GyXJSO_v32QNCEQGEhNn78f_GZFxGyjzMWle2o90WDCHpi7BXvqEi jq1Fvdw.H_TAJQNhfUvNRYmYe038Pta1YvP3EwsxmQoV0KvkBldsx7ThGDQ3 ivLdIHmsIk9Gnv4RBgGEdyojN.DXMfeySQh0wabM__1j5u5alB1W7pnb2Kie kYvA_jtSo5j57gv0bCRODSpCZkPSUfTS7XxYvbVzWNoVjREcB4cFndmfnvVE GAORX5pF7vJSWTVesYmgsR2Lv5khxuJpVDKGt_tsprFCN2E3bosES5DXHF_z Hh69g5Tu9.WEBQedW9rhFdzjTm8V0seQiLfywd9vUw3PgUjxDhYDZQc.8l18 oSmC1.gcEHDIwpYhpXyZFLsTVVrHYMUAwP.k7JQB5P1CIzXYSkqCLHCnsNeX dBT4DeOODd83n_7H0SIY5wJbqGomV X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- X-Rocket-Received: from [92.231.4.216] (ralf.mardorf@92.231.4.216 with ) by smtp139.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Dec 2013 17:11:13 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <1386263471.1076.15.camel@archlinux> Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 port? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:11:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> < CAKoxK+61HZPLR_xM7BC12dHc3y4eHPDCEvsRC8oQ_Jm1wUovnQ@mail.gmail.com> < 1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> < CAGwOe2ZPwAV2oxRs3CdKNnxoNPLhOD_2uJcf_RzgiEM7kenzwg@mail.gmail.com> < 57cd35243ed489e9f5870195edfe97e7@mhoenicka.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 17:11:15 -0000 On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:42 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:10:39 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: >=20 > > On 2013-12-05 15:41, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa was heard to say: > >> But porting something that shows no interest in supporting > >> anything but Linux is both difficult and tiring. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > Ditto - except LXDE here. On Linux there are tendencies to get rid of GTK. You might have heard that Razor-Qt and LXDE folks are working on LXDE-Qt. I still stay with Xfce, but even try to get rid of it, to switch away from as much GTK dependent software as possible. As a Linux user I don't have the impression that GNOME upstream is interested in anything, just a subjective impression. Regards, Ralf