spec.
"The address of the system message bus is given in the
DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. If that variable is not set,
applications should try to connect to the well-known address
unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket."
Approved by: marcus
amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried
out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a
shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
until we got something that was solid.
Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,
jylefort and marcus have completed work on a port of HAL to FreeBSD. This
will allow FreeBSD to take advantage of closer hardware interaction such
as auto-mounting CD-ROMs, USB drives, and music players; auto-playing
audio CDs; and managing laptop power consumption.
But where would this all be without our loyal testers and contributors?
Therefore, the FreeBSD GNOME team would like to thank the following users:
Phillip Neumann <pneumann@gmail.com>
tmclaugh
mux
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
chinsan
Thomas <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch>
Brian Gruber <knightbg@yahoo.com>
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com>
Andris Raugulis <endrju@null.lv> <endrju@null.lv>
Eric L. Chen <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>
Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com>
QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
Shane Bell <decept0@gmail.com>
luigi
sajd on #freebsd-gnome
sat
Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
kaeru on #freebsd-gnome
crsd_ via irc.freenode.org/#FreeBSD-GNOME
Joel Diaz <joeldiaz@mac.com>
Enjoy!
Approved by: portmgr (implicit, kris)
Note: enabling this will add a conflict to mDNSResponder which may interfere
with KDE applications.
PR: 98566
Submitted by: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> (with modifications)
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/ for the official release notes, and a list
of all the gooides in this new release. In particular, GNOME 2.14 focused
on performance, and they did not miss the mark. There's some new eye candy,
but most of the big things are waiting until GNOME 2.16. On the FreeBSD
side, we tried to clean up all the crashers we could. In particular, we
really improved GNOME's 64-bit support.
The good news is that this release does not bring any big shared library
version bumps, so you can almost do a simple portupgrade to get to 2.14.
There are a few minor gotchas that will be documented in UPDATING shortly.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like th thank the following users for their
patches, feedback, and sometimes incessant complaing about crashes (you
know who you are).
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
rmgls@wanadoo.fr
tmclaugh
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
sajd on #freebsd-gnome
ade
ankon on #FreeBSD-Gnome
mux
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
Vladimir Timofeev <vovkasm@gmail.com>
and ${PTHREAD_LIBS}, avahi linked its binaries with -lc_r on FreeBSD. This
caused nasty runtime failures on i386, and build failures on alpha, amd64,
and other platforms where libc_r no longer exists.
To fix this, don't go through the song and dance of trying to solve the
-shared/${PTHREAD_LIBS} problem, and just link with ${PTHREAD_LIBS} as
usual. Of course, ports that depend on avahi's libraries will break by
doing this, so add ${PTHREAD_{LIBS,CFLAGS}} to the right pkg-config files
to make sure dependencies will pick them up.
Patch adapted from: Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
...but with a twist. Avahi is a D-BUS based mDNS solution from
Freedesktop.org.
Avahi provides Service discovery on a local network -- this means that you
can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view
other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files
being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X
(branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf') and is very
convenient.
WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
A lot of the ground work for this port was provided by ahze.
