10:30 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) 

gnome: remove tracker2

Tracker2 has long ago been replaced by tracker3 which is also gone now
and replaced by tinysparql.

Tracker2 is creating some complication for many ports (including
grilo-plugins) when installed, considering it not supported anymore,
just remove it instead of fighting it in each related port

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10:30 tcberner 

net/gnome-online-miners: Update to 3.34.0

PR:		250893
Submitted by:	Neel Chauhan <neel@neelc.org>

 

11:58 kwm 

The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.28 for FreeBSD.

The offical GNOME 3.28 release notes can be found at
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.28/

Thanks to Antoine Brodin for running the exp-runs.

PR:		229761

 

19:13 kwm 

The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.16 for FreeBSD.

The offical GNOME 3.16 release notes can be found at
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.16/

Upgrade instructions for port users:

Delete the old tracker package with:
# pkg delete -f tracker
And user port upgrade tool of choice to upgrade.

Thanks to Antoine Brodin for running the exp-runs.

This release was made possible by the following people:
  Gustau Perez
  Ting-Wei_Lan

PR:		201980

 

20:13 kwm 

Update cinnamon to 2.4, this should fix [1] and [2].
Update totem to 3.14 now that we have gstreamer 1.4 and minor gnome updates.
Update evolution suite to 3.12.9.
Make sure gtk30 pulls in adwait-icon-theme, since it now the default theme [3].

PR:		195290 [1], 195289 [2], 195455 [3]
Obtained from:	gnome devel repo

 

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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