Links:
GNOME URL: https://www.gnome.org/
Development repository URL: https://codeberg.org/olivierd/freebsd-ports-gnome

Contact: FreeBSD GNOME Team <gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com>

GNOME is a full desktop environment which is mainly based on GLib, GTK3/GTK4, and libadwaita. It provides two window managers or compositors: x11-wm/mutter and x11-wm/metacity.

Currently in the ports collection, x11/gnome-shell is not supported by upstream anymore. As it is a lot of work, in order to have GNOME 44 available for users, I decided to split this update, because it impacts several ports.

As a maintainer of x11/budgie and Pantheon desktop (a window manager based on x11-wm/mutter, developed for elementary OS) I need more recent versions of some GNOME libraries.

Firstly I worked on WebKitGTK. The 4.0 "legacy" API is almost not used by GNOME’s libraries. The bare minimum is the 4.1 API. I created webkit.mk for the Mk/Uses framework, in order to flavorize www/webkit2-gtk3. There is an ongoing effort, but currently it is too unstable. Often applications such as Epiphany, mail clients (Geary, Evolution), or the online accounts panel in package:sysutils/gnome-control-center dump core.

Nonetheless, remainder of desktop is usable and the latest release (44.7) of GNOME Shell is functional. I have begun sending my first patches for review (as well as those in Bugzilla).

I have also ported the GNOME Flashback session module. It depends on x11-wm/metacity and x11-toolkits/libwnck3.

I also maintain a documentation, and we can see various desktops available.

GNOME 45 is almost finished, except for GNOME Shell extensions. For this release I will focus on Wayland support (bug #258042 and bug #271836).

Tests and patches are welcomed, especially for WebKitGTK.

Next months I plan to work on: