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    The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.14 and Cinnamon 2.2. · be884cd4
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    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
    ported a few that can't be installed via this way.
    The old gnome-utils and gnome-games ports where split up into single ports
    and where converted to meta-ports.
    gnome-terminal requires a UTF-8 locale to run, gdm handles this already, but
    if you use startx you need to do this yourself.
    
    Upgrade instructions:
    
    Delete the old and conflicting packages:
    # pkg delete clutter gnome-utils gnome-panel gnome-keyring vala-vapigen \
        guile gcalctool gnome-media libgnomekbd
    # pkg delete gnome-screensaver gnome-applets bug-buddy evolution-exchange \
        evolution-webcal gnome-system-tools seahorse-plugins gnome-control-center
    
    For package users the following lines will be enough:
    # pkg upgrade
    # pkg install gnome3
    
    For ports users should do the following:
    # portmaster -a
    # portmaster x11/gnome3
    
    We are currently aware of two issues. The first issue is a bug in the
    file monitoring code in the glib20 port. This bug causes glib programs
    to crash when files in a monitored directory are added or removed.
    Upstream is aware of the problem, but since the problem is quite complex
    there is no solution yet. This problem isn't restricted to BSD.
    
    The second issue is that on certain video cards totem will display a
    purple/pink overlay on the video. It not clear yet where the issues
    comes from.
    
    Major thanks goes to Gustau Perez for being a driving force behind getting
    GNOME 3 up to speed again. Also thanks to Antoine Brodin for running the exp-runs.
    
    This update was also made possible by:
    	Joe Maloney
    	Kris Moore
    	Beeblebrox
    	Ryan Lortie
    	Antoine Jacoutot
    	and everyone I missed
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