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Joe Marcus Clarke
4987b2561a * Remove the section on enabling Lame support 
* Add a paragraph on FAM support [1]
* Add a like to Gary Dunn's SMB mount how-to under the volume mounting
  FAQ
* Update the spatial Nautilus FAQ for GNOME 2.10

Submitted by:	bmah [1]
 2005-03-19 20:18:11 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
0e0fba2036 Note that you can still edit GNOME menus by hand if you want. 
They really dropped the ball on this issue ::/
 2005-03-12 22:41:55 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
dfcfcac3e4 Update the menu editing question to reflect the hash reality of GNOME 2.10. 2005-03-12 21:30:46 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
598ba696ee Update URL to Jimmac's icon site. 2005-03-07 20:29:27 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
3cc2b8e511 Update the themes FAQ entry. We really don't need a paragraph-long 
description for each site.
 2005-02-18 05:42:36 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
dfa17acdfd Correct the link to ade's amd64 Tinderbox. 
Submitted by:	ade
 2005-02-16 06:15:28 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
819bd8cd02 Add a pointer to ade's amd64 packages for the GNOME 2 meta-ports. 2005-01-21 21:52:45 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
2481b433f3 Update the MIME type answer for GNOME 2.8. 2004-12-11 19:07:01 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
78c0719937 Expand the nautilus-cd-burner question to include totem, goobox, and 
sound-juicer as well.
 2004-11-28 21:26:06 +00:00
Michael Johnson
0dcd922116 Make the old GNOME version an entity to ease FAQ regeneration for 
updates [1]
Include a link to the MarcusCOM repositories, rather than just telling
  people to go there [2]

Submitted by:	keramida [1]
		ceri [2]
Approved by:	adamw (mentor)
 2004-11-10 05:33:09 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
dd97e29113 * Add another caveat regarding removable media mounting [1] 
* Mention X.Org in addition to XFree86 [2]

Submitted by:	Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> [1]
		bgruber <lists@bgruber.isa-geek.com> [2]
 2004-11-08 21:07:31 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
edf32bfd18 Change 2.4 references to 2.6. Or 2.8. Or whatever they're supposed to be. 2004-11-07 22:58:20 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
e733641e18 4.X does not have a pam_nologin module. 2004-09-22 04:55:46 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
c7bfe7a2c4 Add an FAQ on how to upgrade from gnome2-lite to the full GNOME 2 desktop. 
This is covered in the gnome2-lite pkg-message, but might be missed by
users installing from packages.
 2004-09-21 02:39:30 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
ffee100d1e Add a comment saying that users must have write access to the device nodes 
in order to mount volumes through Nautilus.
 2004-08-29 03:06:07 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
165b71a65c Nuke contractions. 2004-08-25 03:31:12 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
1103a53751 Make sure to test the pixelsize font property when setting conditional 
antialiasing.  If this is not done, certain applications (e.g. Mozilla and
gnome-terminal) may not honor antialiasing settings.

Reported by:	Rob Mason <masonr@bsdbox.homeunix.com>
 2004-08-18 01:30:35 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
103699b183 * Be a little more clear that the Tinderbox packages are up-to-date 
* Remove a section about bad thread ports that is no longer true
* Remove <tt></tt> around "X" since it made the X appear lowercase
 2004-08-14 06:01:42 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
77f86a7a23 * Correct an out-of-date mention of FAM 
* Add an FAQ on configuring GDM for automatic logins
* s/([45]).x/\\1.X/g
 2004-08-03 04:02:18 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
310f3da377 Mention gtk[2]-theme-switch as a way to quickly and easily change GTK+ 
themes.

Suggested by:	Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>
 2004-07-27 14:29:41 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0bcf364c37 Add an FAQ item on how to create new MIME types in GNOME 2.6. 2004-07-18 06:58:14 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
38461b63fd Mention gnome-look.org in the themes list thinger. 2004-06-18 15:42:44 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
425d69be51 Fix a typo (s/knowning/knowing/), and change Xft to libXft. 2004-05-25 22:00:05 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
9bca6c4baf Add two new questions on GNOME performance and package installation. 2004-04-25 05:31:13 +00:00
Pav Lucistnik
fb1c1f70e0 - Revert rev. 1.66, it was not a typo. 
Lesson learned:	don't touch something you have no clue about
Requested by:	marcus
 2004-04-06 22:13:14 +00:00
Pav Lucistnik
443a7f621e - Fix typo 
Reported by:	Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>
 2004-04-06 13:14:59 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
5a9e7cd900 Add some new FAQs for the new Nautilus. 2004-04-05 07:39:06 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
ce5de0296b * Mention the new gnome-icons and metacity-themes meta-ports under the themes 
question
* Remove some CVS corruption that sneaked in on the previous commit
 2004-04-05 07:15:15 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
592e8534e2 Announcing GNOME 2.6! 
There's a new upgrade FAQ, and a new script to handle the upgrading. Do
not upgrade GNOME without it!

Also incorporated are a number of grammar and readability fixes.
 2004-04-04 22:07:06 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
42507c7acb freebsd.org -> FreeBSD.org 2004-04-04 21:49:42 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0128ded0fe Document the GNOME Power Tools collection. 2004-02-08 07:47:24 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
329bb84da0 Remove all trailing whitespace. This is a whitespace commit only, so 
translators can ignore this.
 2004-01-24 07:58:44 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
3eca313e89 Describe how to enable FAM and LAME support in GNOME after GNOME has already 
been installed without said support.
 2004-01-08 08:26:57 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
ac8c623ba2 Clear up the keeping-up-to-date section a bit... simplify explanations 
and make examples a little more fool-tolerant.
 2004-01-08 06:42:12 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
aaf1252792 Update the documentation to reflect the new GNOME meta-ports. 2004-01-08 03:29:36 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
05e0ca35bf Clean up some grammar, add some tips, do some other stuff, and some other thing. 2003-12-28 00:48:28 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
2e4ae912ed Correct grammar nit. 2003-12-28 00:27:25 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
88e219cc4f Remove another instance of acd0 from the nautilus-cd-burner question. 2003-12-25 05:06:57 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
d5bd0350e1 /dev/acd* no longer needs read-write permissions for nautilus-cd-burner 
to work properly.
 2003-12-23 05:20:51 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
22c1b44dd8 Add instructions for how to actually start GNOME once you have it installed. 2003-10-20 22:46:11 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
e8276cdd49 Add a couple more nits while I avoid studying for my upcoming midterm: 
* a couple grammar nits
* note that gtkrc works in gtkrc-2.0, but not the other way around
* note that GDM session files have to be executable
 2003-10-17 16:05:28 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
a3879e283d Give an example of the error you get when your bidness isn't 
up-to-date.
 2003-10-17 15:43:25 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
f05c6b8258 Cheeky nits. 2003-10-17 15:34:50 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
9aa7c2944a Add an FAQ on adding new GDM sessions with an included KDE example. 2003-10-10 07:24:36 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
0b510c117f - Add and use a trademark entity for POSIX. 
- Add trademark symbols for: Motif, OpenGL, and POSIX.
 2003-10-03 22:42:04 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
5c5bae4079 * Add the necessary CAM components that are required in the kernel [1] 
* Use a real CD-RW device tag

Suggested by:	Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
 2003-09-22 21:30:29 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
fca08f337b * Add a FAQ on getting nautilus-cd-burner to work 
* Add a "Known Issue" on building gnomemeeting

Reviewed by:	adamw
 2003-09-22 04:13:58 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
a7c3b3d996 Create an entity and XSL variable for the current GNOME version (called 
gnomever).

Suggested by:	dougb
 2003-09-20 18:53:02 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
938793b11c Now that the GNOME 1.4 desktop has been removed, state that it's cool to 
install GNOME 1.4 apps to your heart's content.
 2003-09-20 17:35:07 +00:00
Alexander Nedotsukov
ebbc3e6d2b Fix Q8 href anchor. 2003-09-20 03:00:16 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
392d982fb9 Add themes.freshmeat.net to the list of sites providing GNOME/GTK themes. 2003-09-19 21:20:19 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
837ae6f710 Give some more steps to ensure a successful GNOME 2.4 upgrade. 2003-09-19 18:48:20 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
227e6fd8ec Take another whack at the GNOME 2.4 upgrade procedure. 2003-09-19 15:52:42 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
597deb06a1 Point people to using ORBit2 as a portupgrade jumping point instead of atk. 2003-09-18 18:45:15 +00:00
Alexander Nedotsukov
7efe13a10a - Change references GNOME 2.2 -> 2.4 
- Add new tip how to upgrade from GNOME 2.2 to GNOME 2.4
 2003-09-18 15:33:51 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
ad7efd1b09 * Remove single-cell tables 
* Convert table used for formatting the FAQ to an ordered list
* Convert spacing construction to an inline style definition

PR:		55973
Submitted by:	Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
 2003-08-26 07:45:58 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
fda0dacf42 Remove the words "vice versa" from the question regarding running GNOME 1.4 
apps under the GNOME 2.2 desktop (there is no more "vice versa").  Also,
correct a small grammatical nit.
 2003-07-19 08:08:54 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0f90bb4c09 We don't need to describe how to run GNOME 2.2 apps under the GNOME 1.4 
desktop any longer.
 2003-07-15 21:30:26 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0621e23442 Add gnomeaudio to the list of GNOME 1.4 components that must be removed 
before installing the GNOME 2 desktop.
 2003-07-13 05:04:06 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
dbe153b828 Clarify that you have to use a GTK+ 1.2 theme if you want the same 
theme for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2 applications. Also, fix a small spacing
problem.
 2003-05-17 07:02:54 +00:00
Adam Weinberger
48bce87c30 Include explicit instructions for using GTK+ 2 widget themes 
without the GNOME desktop running.
 2003-05-17 03:51:20 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
2145b3c802 Add a section on completing the FAM configuration. 
Suggested by:	Wade Majors <wade@ezri.org>
 2003-05-13 16:33:11 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
dceec0741e Reword the part about adding macros to /etc/make.conf so people know to 
add the macros _before_ installing GNOME 2.
 2003-04-23 22:21:58 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
91b6bed201 * Remove the section that talked about GNOMENG 
* Update the Fifth Toe section now that it's been beefed up
* Change the fontconfig manpage reference from fontconfig(3) to fonts-conf(5)
* s/Xft2/Xft/
 2003-04-06 20:01:55 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
43d6a659f3 Update now that Hermes support is enabled by default in gstreamer-plugins. 2003-02-28 06:08:55 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
80d110a0cf Describe what the optional GNOME-enhancing macros do. 
Suggested by:	des
 2003-02-23 16:21:35 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
03eebc417a * Add some optional make macros to enhance the GNOME 2 experience 
* Mention fc-cache, and why you might need it
* Fix a few grammar nits
 2003-02-22 21:02:52 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
c8dbcb8268 Add ggv to the list of GNOME 1.4 apps you should delete before installing the 
GNOME 2 desktop.
 2003-02-09 08:54:40 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
058fb895a3 Add a QA on how to control the anti-aliasing features in fontconfig. 2003-02-08 08:09:02 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
e4be796e71 Update the docs to cover GNOME 2.2. 2003-02-07 17:53:25 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
16f98d89ec * Update the window manager answer to include gnome-session-save 
* Add an FAQ on configuring GNOME 1.4 application settings under GNOME 2.
 2002-12-19 19:16:41 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
a0e5443943 * No longer mention 4.4-RELEASE. We support 4.5 and higher. 
* Link to the "keeping GNOME up-to-date" question in the "problems building"
  question.
* Remove as many contractions as readability allows.
* Shorten the contact list to only active GNOME committers.
* Add my FreeBSD AIM screen name.
* Fix a grammar nit in the GNOME 2 FAQ.
* Clarify that the search interface now searches the freebsd-gnome mailing
  list archives.
 2002-12-07 06:39:32 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
dedcfaeea5 * Note that to remove all GNOME components, you should use pkg_delete -rf 
* Installing GNOME from packages works, but the preferred method is still
  ports.
 2002-12-02 03:11:58 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
8cd7cecfc6 Remove the sleep 5 from the window manager switch stuff. It causes metacity 
to respawn before sawfish can launch.
 2002-10-17 18:34:40 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
168e34eff2 * Fix some grammatical nits 
* s/1.4.1/1.4/g , s/2.0.[0-9]/2.0/g
* mention gnome2-fifth-toe

Submitted by:	Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
 2002-10-14 03:58:32 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
22c371d28f Sunshine In a Bag is now art.gnome.org. Also, add jimmac's Icons site. 2002-10-02 23:52:49 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
deb52c0f32 Add a Q/A on modifying GTK+ 2 resources outside of the GNOME desktop. 
Submitted by:	Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
 2002-09-22 06:47:22 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
925d2dd8cc Fix the link to question 10. 2002-09-20 02:11:47 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
6a917afbb9 Add a Q/A on editing GNOME 2 menus. 2002-09-19 18:02:51 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
b8e7464afb Add another theme site, and replace all the contractions with full 
noun+verb combos.
 2002-08-29 17:54:06 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
3ecc7cdee6 * Fix a bad link in the GNOME 2 FAQ 
* Clarify how detrimental a pkg_delete f pkgconfig can be
* Sync the "up-to-date" question and answer in both FAQs
 2002-08-25 19:12:55 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
eae76d4625 GNOME is more than just the desktop. The reason we want to run portupgrade 
on pkgconfig is not not only upgrade the desktop, but all the GNOME 2 (and
GNOME 1) applications as well.
 2002-08-25 19:02:13 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
b654e84917 Add a question on how to keep GNOME 2 up-to-date. 2002-08-25 06:05:41 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
82b02154ba Fix a typo. 2002-08-20 23:39:32 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
35d0f5f2a7 Add a blurb on how to switch between window managers in GNOME 2. 2002-08-20 05:48:36 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
9d68c82b61 Add a blurb about making sure ones /usr/ports/Mk directory is up-to-date 
before trying to build GNOMENG ports.
 2002-08-19 14:48:51 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
72e400bc73 Add eog to the list of GNOME 1 ports to remove before installing the GNOME 2 
desktop.
 2002-08-19 01:56:30 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
ba81e5f991 Add gdm to the list of GNOME 1.4.1 packages that must be uninstalled before 
GNOME 2 can be installed.

Prompted by:	Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
 2002-08-11 17:24:13 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0016fbec68 Update the question on running GNOME 1.4.1 apps under GNOME 2 to include 
the new GNOMENG layout.
 2002-08-10 18:10:36 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
8daa6f1bb4 Actually specify the correct variable name to use to enable anti-aliased 
fonts.

Submitted by:	James Earl <mtntrip@yahoo.com>
 2002-07-07 03:25:39 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
9ddf90e331 Actually add the GNOME 2.0 FAQ. 
Reported by:	kermida, blackend
Big pointy hat to:	me (for breaking the web build)
 2002-07-06 02:48:02 +00:00