and new features. Don't believe me? Then see for yourself at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/.
DO NOT USE portupgrade by itself to upgrade to GNOME 2.12. Instead, use
the gnome_upgrade.sh script from
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh. This script will
circumvent some potential pitfalls users can see if they use portupgrade
by itself.
In keeping with tradition, GNOME 2.12 for FreeBSD comes with a special
splash screen. The winner of this release's contest is
Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>. His splash screen
was inspired by http://art.gnome.org/contests/2.12-splash/83.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would lank to thank the following users for
their contributions to this release:
Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz>
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sajd on #freebsd-gnome
Caelian on #freebsd-gnome
mnag
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
Mark Hobden <markhobden@gmail.com>
Sergey Akifyev <asa@agava.com>
Andreas Kohn
For more information on GNOME on FreeBSD, checkout
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/. The 2.12 documentation will be
posted shortly.
CJK TrueType fonts look prettier. Various enhancements like bold, italic,
readability, and embedded bitmap font help a CJK X desktop a great deal.
To enable this patchset, define WITH_CJK while building these ports (pango,
fontconfig, libXft, and freetype2).
PR: 73083
Submitted by: clive
Obtained from: Hamigua <hamigua at cuc.cn> (I think)
and make XFREE86_VERSION map to it. XFREE86_VERSION is now deprecated.
- Make xorg the default X_WINDOW_SYSTEM on -current.
- Add several new X_*_PORT variables which point to various pieces of X11 based
on the setting of X_WINDOW_SYSTEM, and make ports use them.
- Add information to CHANGES about how to handle the transition.
PR: ports/68763
Approved by: portmgr (marcus)
Approved by: re (scottl)
Begin autotools sanitization sequence by requiring ports to explicitly
specify which version of {libtool,autoconf,automake} they need, erasing
the concept of a "system default".
For ports-in-waiting:
USE_LIBTOOL=YES -> USE_LIBTOOL_VER=13
USE_AUTOCONF=YES -> USE_AUTOCONF_VER=213
USE_AUTOMAKE=YES -> USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=14
Ports attempting to use the old style system after June 1st 2004 will be
sorely disappointed.
a crash with certain monotype fonts such as the Windows FixedSys fonts.
Note, the real fix should go into freetype2, but I'm still waiting for
feedback from them.
Obtained from: Fontconfig CVS
most of the Xft/fontconfig problems people are experiencing. Note that
in this version, font caches do not have to exist for Xft applications
to function properly.
PR: 50482
to not include /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts if XFree86 was not installed.
This was in turn leading to crashes in things such as xclock. This bug
has been filed with fontconfig's Bugzilla as bug #45.
Reported by: many
Brought to my attention by: anholt
Approved by: portmgr (will)
may have booted the machine without having /usr/X11R6/lib. Thus ldconfig
never cached it. This should fix the sprious Error 1 failures when
running post-install.
Reported by: anholt
* Fixes a segfault
* Performs country-independent matching for Chinese languages
* Finishes off the UTF-16 conversion code
* Adds a section on local.conf to fontconfig.3
Obtained from: XFree86 CVS
