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* Update faq212.sgml to link to the FreeBSD.org version of gnome_upgrad.sh

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* Update Known Issues list
* Update hot list of new features
* Tie faq212.sgml into the build
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Joe Marcus Clarke 2005-11-05 07:22:29 +00:00
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svn path=/www/; revision=26251
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/Makefile,v 1.16 2004/11/07 22:55:29 adamw Exp $
# $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/Makefile,v 1.17 2005/03/12 10:21:06 marcus Exp $
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
.include "../Makefile.conf"
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DOCS= faq2.sgml
DOCS+= faq28.sgml
DOCS+= faq210.sgml
DOCS+= faq212.sgml
DOCS+= gnome_porting.sgml
DOCS+= gnome1_porting.sgml
DOCS+= gnome2_porting.sgml

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<p><b>What is new in GNOME &gnomever;?</b></p>
<!-- A1 -->
<p>Although the canonical summary of new features can be found at
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnusers.html">http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnusers.html</a>,
<a
href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/">http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/</a>,
some of the most exciting new features of GNOME &gnomever; are:</p>
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD support for CPU frequency monitoring, ACPI power
management, wireless signal strength monitoring for all
supported drivers, and disk read/write utilization
<li>Better keyboard layout and feature control
<li>Sleek selection of desktop backgrounds
<li>Many new applications, applets, and UI enhancements
<li>Sexy new default theme, Clearlooks
<li>More usable and powerful Nautilus file manager
<li>Desktop-wide clipboard that can save your paste buffer
even after you have closed the application from which you
copied
<li>Enhanced multimedia support
<li>Extensive list of stability and speed increases
</ul>
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<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup
your ports tree</a>.
<li>Download the FreeBSD GNOME Project's <a href="http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh">upgrade
<li>Download the FreeBSD GNOME Project's <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh">upgrade
script</a>.
<li>Run the script as <tt>root</tt>. Read a good-sized book.
</ol>
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a couple regressions that slipped in, both in the GNOME code and in its implementation
within FreeBSD. Some of the more visible issues are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Changing the GTK theme can cause a few apps to crash. This issue is known to the
GNOME/Linux world, so it is not a FreeBSD-specific issue. You can ignore
the error message, and click the "Restart" button to restart the
crashed application when the dialog pops up. You should be fine after that.
<li>The KDE menu is missing some icons. KDE failed to follow the published
freedesktop.org standards, and places its icons in a non-standard
location. GNOME 2.10 introduced a mass move towards complete compliance
with freedesktop.org standards, so there's not much that can be done
until KDE moves its default icons into a location that GNOME recognizes.
<a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html</a>
<li>[gnome-session]: Options for shutting down or rebooting
will not appear on logout unless GDM is running on the
same machine.
<li>[multiload-applet]: The disk reads/writes monitor does
not work on -CURRENT. A solution is currently being
sought.
<li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137388">
#137388</a>: [gnome-terminal] gnome-terminal has a problem
with dynamic titles and vim (<b>UPDATE:</b> See this
<a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-May/006689.html">email</a>
for a workaround to this problem)
<li><a
href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73375">#73375</a>:
[evolution] Evolution will crash when selecting a new
Server Type for an account with malloc debugging enabled.
This only affects -CURRENT users by default. To disable
malloc debugging, run the command <tt>ln -sf aj
/etc/malloc.conf</tt> as root.
<li>GnomeVFS-2 now has native support for sftp methods. Fully
non-interactive publickey authentication works on all versions
of FreeBSD, but FreeBSD 5.X is required for password or
passphrase authentication.
</ul>
<p>There are currently no known FreeBSD-specific issues with
&gnomever;. See <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnknownissues.html">
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnknownissues.html</a>
for the general list of GNOME &gnomever; known issues.</p>
</li>