This release notes detailing all of the new goodies in GNOME 2.8 can
be found at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/, and the list of what
was fixed in GNOME 2.8.1 can be found at
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-October/msg00056.html.
This release, as well as all of our others, would not have been possible
without the great efforts of our FreeBSD GNOME Team. The list of
current members can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/contact.html
(including our newest member, Michael Johnson <ahze@FreeBSD.org>).
Special thanks also goes out to all of the loyal FreeBSD GNOME users that
put up with crashes and hangs to test and debug GNOME on FreeBSD. We would
especially like to thank those users that provided patches for GNOME 2.7 and
2.8:
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>
Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com>
Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
GNOME 2.8 also features a new, FreeBSD-specific splashscreen that
was designed by jimmac for GNOME 2.8, then daemonized by
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> and Radek Kozlowski
<radek@raadradd.com>.
As with GNOME 2.6, you cannot just "portupgrade" to GNOME 2.8. There is
a script provided at http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade28.sh
that will aid in the upgrade process. Full documentation on the GNOME 2.8
upgrade is coming following this commit.
From all of us at FreeBSD GNOME, ENJOY!
the CVS log with all the details. However, almost every aspect has been
touched. Note, that this is still a GNOME 1.x application!
More info on the features can be found at Ximian:
http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
apps to bsd.gnomeng.mk. The goal is to make GNOME1 framework more modular,
which will allow to use GNOME1 apps with GNOME2 desktop as well as considerably
reduce langht of dependency chains for GNOME1 ports (for example after this
commit AbiWord's dependency chain was reduced by 7 ports from 57 to only
50, while Gnumeric's - from 60 to 53 and so on).
The most of the GNOME1 apps are still not converted, so that lot of work is
still ahead.
Please report any unusual problems to gnome@FreeBSD.org.
Discussed with: marcus
Reviewed by: marcus
* Implement USE_GNOMENG
* Implement REINPLACE
With this commit, and the upcoming bonobo-conf commit, GNOME 2.0 users
should be able to use Evolution wihtout needing any other hacks.
however it goes further that earlier and instead of hanging solidly at
startup tries to launch its components, but goes kaboom (i.e. sig 12) and
dies in agony. Therefore, brave souls with loaded debuggers are welcome to
fix this fscking crap and submit their patches to gnome@FreeBSD.org.
This one just seems to hang and chew CPU, at least on
my -current laptop.
I fear having to build a separate GNOME environment, with
all the debug symbols, to track this one down.
Two GNOME's on one machine! He must be mad!
initial startup (you no longer have to manually copy some files
around). These updates will be committed to the next version of
evolution itself.
Many thanks to Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> for pointing
me in the right direction after my bug report.
