Re: Debian default desktop environment

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

> My mother is using Debian 6 with Gnome 2. I don’t know if I will ever
> update this system. Gnome 3 is not a solution, and I’m not interested in
> teaching XFCE.
>
> Shade and sweet water!
>
>      Stephan

There is mate-desktop - http://mate-desktop.org/.

and it is partially in Debian as far as I see. So may be you just need 
to wait a bit, or add third party repository and simply install it.

Regards,
Alex