-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:51:16AM -0400, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > Sorry, I should get to the end before I respond! > > That's okay, Lisi, I do that, too, especially when trying to work > e-mail with a tablet. > > And this gives me a chance to elucidate on my situation. I have liked > and used Debian for at least 10 years (after 10+ years with Yggdrasil, > Redhat, Fedora), but, as GNOME 2 was giving way to GMOE 3 (ugh) [...]
Similar here, with different outcome. After a short affair with XFCE (and having seen that all are moving towards "desktop", willy-nilly replacing library interfaces with DBUS and similar horrors) I ditched desktop altogether. > SHAMELESS PLUG: Please keep MATE as part of Deb 9..*!! My significant one is on MATE (after I told her to try Gnome 3 and she nearly threw the computer at me[1] ;-) so I have an interest in a working MATE too. Although for me personally it's already far too Rube Goldberg. regards [1] Everyone is entitled to her own judgment, I thought. Perhaps it's just me, averse to change, I thought. - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbxMU8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaOpACfdPDR/WFl/4QivWFDYlzPl3eu VREAn3/vG3bupjVc8LoWbrLZ+9/PB/jT =qROP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----