Dear Mike and dear MATE packaging team, > the MATE Packaging Team is proud to announce that MATE 1.8 has now > fully arrived in Debian.
thank you for your contributions to Debian! > The MATE desktop environment is a fork of what was formerly known as > the GNOME v2 desktop environment. The MATE upstream developers have > performed a really good job in integrating the old GNOME code with > latest technologies like DConf an GSettings. The next upcoming release Please don't get me wrong, but I am still not sure if this tremendous effort would not have been better invested in "GNOME Classic" or "GNOME flashback" instead of creating (and packaging) another fork. Speaking of packages, how does e.g. mate-panel 1.8 differentiate from gnome-panel 3.8? > of MATE (which will be the 1.10 series) will also have GTK3 support > (if things go well!). During the last 6 months several people have > worked on the provisioning of MATE packages in Debian. Same question for other packages: If e.g. engrampa 1.10 (MATE's pendant to file-roller, the archive utility) gets ported to GTK3 and features DConf and GSettings support, how does it differentiate from GNOME's file-roller? Why not rather use the original actually? Again, I don't want to degrade the MATE project or your packaging effort, not at all. But my questions and concerns are serious. I still do not get the point of the whole MATE desktop now that it tries to run behind and catch up with GNOME again. Please enlighten me, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1401798960.23693.9.ca...@kff50.ghi.rwth-aachen.de
