freebsd-ports/x11/gnome-shell/pkg-message
Joe Marcus Clarke f76d32b8e8 Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD. The official release notes for this
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
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		138872 (obsolete with new epiphany-webkit)
		139160
		134737
		139941
		140097
		140838
		140929
2009-11-28 20:06:37 +00:00

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Running
You can either start gnome-shell "nested" in a window within your current
session, or you can run it within your session replacing gnome-panel and
window manager.
Depending on the state of your X drivers, one or of the other of these may
work better. So, if the first one you try doesn't work, try the other.
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Running gnome-shell replacing the panel
This approach is best when trying out the GNOME Shell and wanting to see its
full potential.
gnome-shell --replace
When gnome-shell exits (you can kill it with Control-C in the terminal in which
you started it), gnome-panel and metacity are restarted.
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Running gnome-shell nested
This approach is useful when developing the GNOME Shell and wanting to quickly
test some changes. NOTE: It isn't useful for getting a good feel for how the
shell works since it will be really slow, and won't properly integrate with
the rest of your desktop.
gnome-shell
(This requires a relatively recent version of Xephyr with GLX support to be
installed on your system (x11-servers/xephyr).