Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitt
Sorry to be a bit late there :) Am 21.09.2012 16:41, schrieb Jon Dowland: That's not really of any interest to -devel, and I guess you're quoting info from private mail here. Please let's keep this list useful. I disagree. It was very useful to get a glimpse on why he had / has so many issues w

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
That's not really of any interest to -devel, and I guess you're quoting info from private mail here. Please let's keep this list useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 01:58 AM, superuserlaptop wrote: This to me is a form of sabotage. It turns out that "superuserlaptop" is using a Squeeze system, half upgraded, with a MATE Wheezy unofficial repository, both Stable, Wheezy and SID repositories in his sources.list but without doing a dist-upgrade,

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, Thank you for your mail. The reason MATE is not in Debian is that nobody has put the work in to make it so. In Debian, things happen thanks to developers putting effort in, usually in their spare time. Whilst it's true that some people believe MATE should not be included in Debian, they d

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 01:58 AM, superuserlaptop wrote: Mate Desktop environment (http://www.mate-desktop.org) I am writing in support of Mate DE. In less than a year a few people have designed an alternative to Gnome 3. I have been averaging one reconditioned HP Compaq nc6400 laptop per quarter year, f

Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-19 Thread superuserlaptop
Mate Desktop environment (http://www.mate-desktop.org) I am writing in support of Mate DE. In less than a year a few people have designed an alternative to Gnome 3. I have been averaging one reconditioned HP Compaq nc6400 laptop per quarter year, four per year. This is one of my contributions to