On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 17 September 2013 08:01, Benjamin Denisart wrote:
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 :-)
Or... if there is a group that is willing to support it, why not make it the same as KDE3.... a community supported option for those that prefer to use it. See: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3 for reference. There is something heading that direction now... http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE This takes the load off the VERY limited resources available for the core distro, and as long as there are community members willing to support Mate, they have full control over its implementation, updates, and maintenance.... exactly like KDE3 does with the team maintaining it for 12.3, and I assume onward into 13.x. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org