On 21/10/12 01:15, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Most issues people have with GNOME 3 “classic” usually boil down to “the > panel is black instead of grey”. > > 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. > Probably you all know already, but GNOME "classic" (aka fallback) is going to be removed with GNOME 3.8 [1] So, for those who like GNOME but want a "classic" desktop metaphor the options are now reduced to cinnamon and mate. I didn't tried cinnamon yet, but I guess I will do soon because it is coming to Debian now [2] Anyway, I was very happy with GNOME2 and all its applets, so if Mate is packaged inside Debian it will be for sure my preferred option. Also, mate is now the only option for those who want a GNOME desktop but don't have 3D acceleration or don't have a fast enough CPU to run LLVMpipe On top of that, Mate is now packaged officially on Fedora [3]. So if they can support it and live together with the "code duplication stupidity", then I don't see why Debian couldn't do it. Also, as others pointed before, it's not clear at all which means that affirmation that mate is duplicating code. Could you please elaborate this generic "code duplication stupidity" on specific issues? Which libraries/code is MATE duplicating? Regards! -------- [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/523774/ [2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/cinnamon_1.6.2-1.html #657395 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop
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