20:54 bapt 

Always prevent building valadoc.

The build system check for valadoc, if found in the environement then
it will be used to generate the devhelp documentation. otherwise no.
This behaviour is not optionable, so disable entirely the generation
with a patch for now.

note that in a clean environement it does not happen as valadoc is not
present.

PR:		249423
Reported by:	mandree

 

11:49 kwm 

The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.14 and Cinnamon 2.2.
Gnome 3.14.1 and Cinnamon 2.2.16 are supported on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE and up.

This commit removes the old GNOME 2 desktop, bindings and some ports that
can't be compiled. A few ports where updated to more recent versions to
allow them to compile with this update.

Apart from updating ports to newer versions

GDM is more integrated with gnome-shell now, and handles several things for
the GNOME desktop such as screen locking. If you want to use GNOME 3 via
startx, you will have to add your own lock screen/screensaver. For example
xscreensaver
can be used for sessions started without GDM.

Shell Extensions can be installed via https://extensions.gnome.org/ , we have

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