And then there are those of us who use MATE and other lighter desktops because our hardware won't run Gnome 3. David
On 2 January 2014 12:30, Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:05:28 +0100 > Damien Sandras <dsand...@seconix.com> wrote: > > Le 01/01/14 16:44, Matthias Apitz a écrit : > > > I do not know exactly, what is planned as basis for Ekiga 5.0. But, > > > if it will depend on Gnome 3.x features or layers, this would > > > knock-out completely FreeBSD, due to the fact that Gnome 3 is not > > > portable (IMHO a bad design) to FreeBSD. matthias > > > > Ah :-/ > > > > Currently, it is using GTK+3 (with Glib) as well as some parts of > > GStreamer 1.0 and Clutter-GTK. > > > > Are those parts usable on FreeBSD ? > > I don't use FreeBSD but subject to anything Matthias has to say, you > should be OK with those: there seem to be FreeBSD ports available for > all of them. To avoid confusion it would be wise not to say that > ekiga-5.0 requires gnome-3, because if those are the dependencies then > it doesn't. You would do better describing it as a GTK+-3 application. > > gnome-3 is already semi-incompatible with some linux distributions (you > have to work hard to get to run with slackware for example, although I > do have gnome-3.10 running on slackware-14.1), and it will become > incompatible with more of them as it moves to a hard dependency on > systemd. The only distributions you can be sure will support the full > gnome stack into the future are fedora and arch. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > ekiga-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > -- Read My Blog http://www.ja2da.com
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