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Pantheon desktop on FreeBSD

Contact: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com>

The Pantheon desktop environment is designed for elementary OS. It builds on GNOME technologies (such as Mutter, GTK 3 and 4) and it is written in Vala. The goal is to have a complete desktop environment for end users.

13.2-RELEASE or higher is required, because several core components depend on deskutils/xdg-desktop-portal.

The repository contains a file called elementary.mk for the Mk/Uses framework, official applications, and curated ports which depend on x11-toolkits/granite7.

I have submitted several patches in order to keep these ports up-to-date:

The bug reports for updating the following ports are still open on bugzilla:

In the same time, I have also worked on updating the GNOME stack (especially WebKitGTK, libwnck, Mutter, Vala). I noticed several regressions particularly with x11/plank (it is related to monitoring open applications).

Three new applications have been added to the development repository:

  • deskutils/atlas, a map viewer

  • deskutils/nimbus, a weather applet

  • audio/leopod, podcasts client


Last modified on: October 24, 2023 by Olivier Duchateau