Bug#658783: MATE Desktop Environment in Debian
* Josselin Mouette (joss@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Most issues people have with GNOME 3 ???classic??? usually boil down to ???the
> panel is black instead of grey???.
Mine are generally more of the larger scale; things like not being able
to do 2d arrays of desktops any more, options I use being removed or
performance/minimum system spec issues.
However, that doesn't seem to be relavent to the packaging decision;
in the same way that the packager of one editor can't sensibly
object to the packaging of another.
> Anyway, you???re welcome to package MATE in Debian. Just fix all the code
> duplication stupidity before. So far no one has volunteered to do so.
OK, so I've seen that objection a few times - can you elaborate on
what you believe needs fixing - given that the MATE guys already have
working debs, the issue here seems to be purely one of meeting
debian standards and resolving duplication issues; so it's right
that we try and build a list of precisely what needs doing.
I think they've been pretty careful to allow co-installation with Gnome3,
and by it's nature that does mean they've done things like do renames
on packages where the actual difference between the gnome2 and gnome 3
source for the package is pretty similar.
Dave
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