On 17 September 2013 08:01, Benjamin Denisart <p.drouand@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone !
As you probably all know, Stefano Karapetsas has introduce Mate during the OSC. I will quickly summarize it :
MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. he MATE Desktop Project is dedicated to keeping alive the traditional GNOME2 desktop metaphor. Many users liked this desktop, and found it simple, configurable, and comfortable to use. Our goal is to continue the development of this desktop environment, adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving the software as support libraries and other dependent software improved and changes.
Differences between Gnome2 and Mate : - Removed obsolete technologies and replaced it with modern one - Some new features - Bugfixes - GTK3 themes support
Future of Mate - Support GTK3 and Wayland - Complete support for systemd - Support GStreamer 1.0 - Support AccountsService - Window snapping in window manager - Plugin system for file manager - Remove useless forks and use GNOME equivalent ( gnome-keyring, gweather, yelp-tools, libwnck, etc.)
I think you all agree to say that MATE is become very popular, maybe essential for every Linux distribution, and that the case for the most popular distributions, I think MATE must be include into OpenSUSE.
The question is, of course : Do we wan't MATE in OpenSUSE ? Thanks in advance.
Best regards. Benjamin Denisart
Personally, I don't see the point. Now that GNOME 3 has classic mode [1] I argue that we already have a desktop that preserves the GNOME 2 approach to things and, as its achieved by using shell extensions to alter GNOME 3, Classic mode already has support for most of the features you list in MATES future I personally think we should only add additional DE's to the distribution when they bring something substantially different to the table; Admittedly I realise that with this criteria we probably don't need both lxde and xfce, but that's a discussion for another thread :-) Regards, Richard [1] http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2013/04/gnome-3-8-classic-for-opensuse... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org