RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0
> >> MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good,
> >> it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros
> >> aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only
> >> software I know available for Linux, that does conflict with common
> >> software.
> > I use MATE and I have not experience any conflicts. Do you have any
> > examples of programs that don't work when MATE is installed?
> > I am on Sid, if that helps.
> >
> There's an entire subculture on Debian dedicated to blind hatred of MATE
> for no reason. "Conflicts" are their chief complaint yet I've never once
> seen MATE bashers actually demonstrate any real, reproducible conflict.
> I've used it on Stable, Testing, and Unstable all with zero conflicts
> whatsoever.
There were naming conflicts early on with Gnome 3. Those are gone. There are two packages that still conflict: mate-desktop-gnome and mate-dialogs-gnome.
The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome isn't needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can serve in place for zenity as well).
mate-desktop-gnome conflicts with gnome-desktop-data. They did a rename trick with this, and another package, mate-desktop, serves the same purpose, I believe, and it doesn't conflict.
I think.
Mark
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