Hi. So, Jasper and I just updated GNOME to the latest release in ports (3.8). As far as I know, most build breakages have been taking care of, but there may be some dragons here and there, do _not_ hesitate to ping us if that's the case.
Now, there are some known runtime issues which we are working on; most are related to our old Mesa version or bad radeon support. There are some others that are a little less specific that we will also take care of. Some stuffs could not be updated just yet because we are still stuck with an old webkit release. Landry has done some great work to update webkit to the most recent release, so hopefully we'll have it somewhat soon. The other hold is due to the fact that some GNOME apps now have a hard requirement on python3. Once the webkit situation is fixed, Jasper and I will move all GNOME ports to python 3 since it's our understanding that the default python version on OpenBSD will be stuck at 2 for some time. In 3.8, the so-called "fallback" mode has been removed. It's been replaced with a "classic" mode for people who cannot get anything done with gnome-shell. However, this "classic" mode _requires_ 3D support. Considering the current situation with ATI cards, I wouldn't try to run GNOME on anything else than a supported Intel chipset... and thanks to jsg@ and kettenis@ we now have KMS support for these chipsets. So please, bear with us for the next couple of weeks until things settle a bit before starting to yell about GNOME being broken (although I was told GNOME is bloated and no-one uses it on OpenBSD, so that shouldn't be a problem...). Cheers! -- Antoine
