release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
due in about a year.
On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks
goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release.
In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft
Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection
repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies
aren't brought in wholesale.
But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself)
contributed to this release.
Other major improvements include an updated HAL with better volume
probing code, ufsid integration, and support for volume names containing
spaces (big thanks to J.R. Oldroyd); a new WebKit; updated AbiWord;
an updated Gimp; and a preview of the new GNOME Shell project (thanks to
Pawel Worach).
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to that the following additional
contributors to this release whose patches and testing really helped
make it a success:
Andrius Morkunas
Dominique Goncalves
Eric L. Chen
J.R. Oldroyd
Joseph S. Atkinson
Li
Pawel Worach
Romain Tartière
Thomas Vogt
Yasuda Keisuke
Rui Paulo
Martin Wilke
(and an extra shout out to miwi and pav for pointyhat runs)
We would like to send this release out to Alexander Loginov (avl) in
hopes that he feels better soon.
PR: 136676
136967
138872 (obsolete with new epiphany-webkit)
139160
134737
139941
140097
140838
140929
- This update solves minor issues left after update to 0.7.4.
The main problem of FITS image format pixbuf loader not recognizing
FITS images is due to different definitions of FITS mime type.
The loader uses image/fits (official RFC 4047 mime type) while
shared-mime-info contains image/x-fits.
The proper way to go would be fixing shared-mime-info (any help here
is very appreciated) and the port could go as it is.
Changing either loader to use image/x-fits or freedesktop.org.xml
database to contain image/fits fixes the issue.
PR: ports/131727
Submitted by: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> (maintainer)
to the S-Lang scripting language. It provides an importable module
which makes most of Gtk and its constituent libraries callable directly
from S-Lang scripts.
With SLgtk the S-Lang programmer now has access to a powerful,
cross-platform widget set for creating sophisticated
graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The package also includes bindings
to GtkExtra, which are used in the vwhere visualization and filtering guilet,
as well as a gdk-pixbuf loader for the FITS image file format
widely used within astronomy, and an easy-to-use but powerful
image compositing, display, and output tool.
WWW: http://space.mit.edu/home/mnoble/slgtk/
PR: ports/125055
Submitted by: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev at phyisik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
