MATE, and Cinnamon differ from standard Gnome, sometimes subtle, sometimes stark.
Yes Gnome and Cinnamon / Mate base on GTK, but so does LXDE.
Cinnamon is a fork of gnome-shell, as muffin is a fork of mutter; MATE is a pure fork of GNOME2 base stack.
AFAIK Cinnamon / Mate try to implement the look and feel of Gnome2/GTK2+ but base on GTK3.
Wrong; MATE will be offering a GTK+-2.0 experince.
So far they try NOT to use any Gnome-Libs.
They forked a lot of libs from GNOME..
The forking of the Apps and Widgets was not needlessly, but to get the dependencies on Gnome-Libs out of them.
The forking of apps is needlessly because whats the point in forking GEdit for example? Whats the point of forking the gnome-utils package? The system I have for MATE integration testing is not using all those needlessly package forks and using components form GNOME3, which are more developed (feature wise), look nicer and work as good :)
And the upstream Gnome-Devs would in no way support that kind of shism internally. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org