Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:26, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:35:10 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke 
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote:
> >> Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a FreeBSD
> >> vs Linux segment.  We've already got some ideas from the KDE guys
> >> about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..).  Do you have any
> >> other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against Linux?  The
> >> producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on video.
> >
> > AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release.  Gucharmap is also a nice
> > bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application).
> > Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer.  Whatever
> > you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work really well with
> > FreeBSD [yet]).  I hear the GKrellM stuff is good.
> >
> > The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does
> > net/netspeed_applet.  Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice
> > on FreeBSD.  Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks very
> > nice.  I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect management tool
> > with a gantt interface.  Totem plays video streams and DVDs nicely.
> > Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo.  I would also show off
> > news/pan2 if you get a chance.  It's been praised as one of the best
> > looking and feeling GUIs out there.  Also, deskutils/gdeskcal is nothing
> > but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't ported yet :-().  Gaim is a nice
> 
> I have gDesklets 0.20 port in my local and it works great, but only one or 
> two plugins that are working. The rest of them aren't working and I am 
> still trying to figure how I can get them work. gDesklets will be useless 
> without those plugins, so should I go ahead send it to PR and worry about 
> plugins later? Or, should I just wait until I get most plugins work? 
> Current, I only can get clock and digital plugins work fine, but haven't 
> create the port of those yet.

What's the problem with the other plug-ins?  I would like to see at
least the framework ported so others can get a chance to add plug-ins.

> 
> I am thinking about add a select script like what ghostscript and php 
> have, but it's for gDesklets to choice which stuff plugins they want to 
> have. gDesklets's plugins installtion and add in gDesklets system method 
> suck, btw.. :-/ But, I think can do extract and install them by manual 
> thought.

I like the menu idea.  Just remember to construct the port so that it
builds a nice default package.

> 
> P.S. If anyone want to help, just let me know.. I will send you the 
> gDesklets port and let you play with it.

I don't really have a lot of time right now, so if it were added to the
tree, that would be the best.

Joe

> 
> Anyway, back to the point, I agree with what Joe has said everything in 
> here. AbiWord2 and pan2 are the great apps to show off. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > functional app on FreeBSD, and also adds a little notification area
> > icon.  If you can, showing off gnomemeeting would be cool, too.
> >
> > Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more
> > specific ideas.  Let me know if you need help configuring, building, or
> > setting up any of the GNOME stuff.
> >
> > Joe
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