Re: [Ekiga-list] [Ekiga-devel-list] Best Wishes for 2014

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:44:32
> From: Matthias Apitz <guru unixarea de>
> To: Ekiga development mailing list <ekiga-devel-list gnome org>
> Cc: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] [Ekiga-devel-list]  Best Wishes for 2014
>
> El día Wednesday, January 01, 2014 a las 04:25:32PM +0100, Yannick escribió:
>
> > > You can expect a 5.0 release before spring. That will be the first
> > > step.
> >
> > Good news ! I've Gnome 3.10 running ; I'll test on it.
>
> Hello,
>
> 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

Hello.

It is my understanding that PC-BSD 10, which is, I understand, based on 
FreeBSD 10, includes GNOME 3, in line with FreeBSD 10; both of which are 
apparently now at release candidate 3 stage.

I am waiting for PC-BSD 10, as I believe that it will be UEFI/GPT 
compatible, and so be able to run on computers that have the dreaded MS 
Windows 8 installed.

Regarding GNOME 3, due to perceived problems with that, relative to 
GNOME 2, which I have been running for a number of years (I am currently 
running Debian 6 with GNOME 2), I had been advised to abandon using 
GNOME and instead, install and use XFCE, which is supposed to be like 
GNOME 2.

How much this overcomes perceived problems, I do not know, but I expect 
that, should Ekiga be compatible with XFCE, it should be able to run 
with the later (than what I am using) versions of Debian, and, with 
PC-BSD 10 and FreeBSD 10, providing each of them runs XFCE, apart from 
being expected to be able to run with the GNOME 3 that can run within 
(or, on top of) PC-BSD 10 and FreeBSD 10.

Whether Ekiga could run with PC-BSD 10, is perhaps, something for the 
Ekiga developers to discuss with Kris Moore of the PC-BSD development 
team.

I, like Greg Hunt, as previously mentioned on this list, some time ago, 
had been unable to get Ekiga working on our systems, due to the version 
of Ekiga that was available as an installable package for the versions 
of Linux that we had been using, and, I have had to instead use Skype, 
as the only available, working videophone software that would work with 
Debian 6, as a package for Debian 6.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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