11:21 rene 

Upgrade the Cinnamon desktop environment to version 4.8

This version uses Python 3 instead of the expired Python 2.7

From the main PR (249856):

" There are a couple known issues:
  * x11-fm/nemo crashes upon closing a window or tab.
  * x11/cinnamon-screensaver unlocking doesn't work, most likely due to a
missing PAM (Linux-PAM?) integration.
  Both of these issues are being worked on.

  I've been dogfooding since Cinnamon 4.0, and apart from those issues,
everything works."

PR:		249771
PR:		249851
PR:		249855
PR:		249856
PR:		249857
PR:		249858
Submitted by:	Charlie Li

 

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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