Re: Debian/Debian Gnome

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 11/4/25 5:29 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon Nov 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM GMT, Joe wrote:
> > Just to confuse matters, the Gnome organisation produces various
> > applications which may be used with any desktop environment or window
> > manager.
>
> Indeed, and it's a good thing! And unfortunately, becoming a little less 
> common. It's harder to functionally operate a modern GNOME application 
> outside of the GNOME desktop than it used to be, for a variety of 
> reasons (including client-side window decorations). Recent versions of 
> gnome-control-center refuse to start at all unless it detects a running 
> GNOME desktop, or you've set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME in the environment.

I sort of abandoned GNOME when version 3 came out.
I stayed with version 2 until MATE was released.
Is there anything I should be watching out for?
IOW I act as if MATE is Gnome done "right" ;/ [Owl ducks fer cover]