sitzmar! do what now?

gnome 2.10

So gnome 2.10 hit the freebsd ports tree on saturday. The freebsd gnome crew put together a script that checks, removes, and rebuilds all the packages that require glib, which pretty much takes care of all the dirty work. It took a significant portion of sunday to rebuild everything, we're talking 12+ hours here on a 1.2Ghz p3. But as always, it was well worth it.

First off, I don't use metacity as my window manager. I prefer the wonderfully simple Xfce. However, the file browser that it comes with (Xffm), leaves a lot to be desired imo. So, I still use nautilus. The one big thing that I have been waiting for is the ability to mount remote file systems and have them treated as if they were local. Nautilus has had some support for this in the past, but I could never get it to work. Not a problem anymore. I was quite impressed how easy it was to mount my various home directories on multiple servers over ssh. Not only that, but other applications *actually* recognized the connections and handled them flawlessly.

This makes my job soo much easier because now I can do all my dev work on the testing server through bluefish with no hassle! Muahahaha!