Re: volunteer to update Gnome to a newer version

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:07:34PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> I  saw on the page that you need people to help on improving gnome-support.
> 
> I like to help to make a newer version of Gnome ( 3.8  or 3.10) avaible
> 
> After that maybe I will start on porting the Cinnamon desktop to Netbsd.
> 
> Can you give me advice what will be the right order of work to make this
> work.
> I have to say that I have no porting experience or coding experience with
> Netbsd.

One sticking point at the moment is simply having icons continue
to appear after upgrading. Any help with that would be greatly
appreciated! A flavour of the issue is here:

  https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2013-November/msg00054.html

Cheers,

Patrick