[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-17 Thread lcerf
Fact, Big Foot exists. It is all over the Internet as well. More seriously, how do you explain that Linus Tovalds "[doesn't] personally mind systemd, and in fact [his] main desktop and laptop both run it" if systemd's developers "were trying to hardwire the kernel to require systemd" (the i

[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-17 Thread lcerf
It is Leafpad. Mousepad is Xfce's text editor. Xfce's logo is a nice mouse (not an evil one like Mickey who refuses to enter the public domain).

[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-16 Thread lcerf
Magic Banana, you can say that again. Sure: "The actual init system does not matter to GNOME or to the future MATE. systemd is an umbrella project that is more than an init system. systemd-logind is a component that manages user logins and seats and works with any init system." According

[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-16 Thread lcerf
As for Magic's issue with ConsoleKit, I'm sure it can be resolved in a future MATE release if its important. It is really important since ConsoleKit is not maintained anymore. And it turns out systemd-logind should be used in the next version (1.12): http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/systemd-log

[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-13 Thread lcerf
I heard that from a GNOME developer at a conference. I do not remember the details. I guess it has to do with things like closing the lid of your laptop (what suspends it by default) while the system is shutting down. If you have ever tried that with Trisquel (which currently uses ConsoleKit)

[Trisquel-users] Re : Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?

2015-06-12 Thread lcerf
Isn't that great? It isn't. It means MATE still uses the unmaintained ConsoleKit framework that GNOME recently ditched in favor of logind, thereby solving several longstanding energy management issues.