Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
[Reviving an old thread ...]
Indeed this seems to be not just vapourware:
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=119
I don't buy the arguments that MATE is vapourware, but building a new
Gnome-2-like desktop on the Gnome 3 underpinnings obviously is easier
and in the lon
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:24:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 12:50 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > On 12/09/2011 03:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> >> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> >> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate
2011-12-10 16:36 keltezéssel, Rahul Sundaram írta:
> On 12/10/2011 03:30 PM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> u
>> Not so fast, there was a point in time when
>> the whole Linux development community
>> was Linus Torvalds. Live and let live.
> You would have a better point there if MATE was a new deskto
On 12/10/2011 03:30 PM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
u
> Not so fast, there was a point in time when
> the whole Linux development community
> was Linus Torvalds. Live and let live.
You would have a better point there if MATE was a new desktop
environment trying to grow a community. GNOME 2.x is a c
Hi.
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:00:55 +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote
> Not so fast, there was a point in time when
> the whole Linux development community
> was Linus Torvalds. Live and let live.
Yes, there was. But it was a) rather short, and b) did not have
a codebase even remotely comparable to t
2011-12-09 11:34 keltezéssel, Kevin Kofler írta:
>> and there is a development community.
> LOL, a "community" called Timothy Pearson…
>
> Don't make me laugh.
>
> Kevin Kofler
Not so fast, there was a point in time when
the whole Linux development community
was Linus Torvalds. Live and le
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Am 10.12.2011 01:20, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> So I'm sceptical about MATE (seeing what's going on with Trinity)
> and I can only strongly discourage attempting to package Trinity.
I agree to that point of view. IMHO MATE is a waste of time and
manpow
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> It is not useful to generalize. There are lots of software components
> which aren't actively maintained but are useful to have in the
> distribution and all distributions have them however a desktop
> environment is a lot of work to maintain (as seen for instance in
> http:
On 12/09/2011 05:42 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 11:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
one
>> developer? I am worried about sustainability.
>>> > > How can you be worried about maintainability given that we
>>> already have
>>> > unmaintained and poorly maintained pac
On 12/09/2011 12:50 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 03:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
>> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
>> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
>> GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few mon
On 12/09/2011 11:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> one
>>> >> developer? I am worried about sustainability.
>> >
>> > How can you be worried about maintainability given that we already have
>> > unmaintained and poorly maintained packages in the distribution?
> When you have problems, the solu
On 12/09/2011 05:17 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 04:12 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 09:20 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
>>> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
>>> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
>
On 12/09/2011 03:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
> GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to package the
> remaining MATE packages.
>
> Would anyo
On 12/09/2011 04:12 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 09:20 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
>> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
>> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
>> GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to pa
Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> What do you think about Trinity Desktop? I liked KDE3. Is there a
> chance to include this DE in Fedora?
Please NO! We worked hard on making kdelibs3 apps work well in KDE Plasma 4
sessions. Trying to support Trinity sessions too is going to make a big
mess. Another big
On 09/12/11 07:03, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> I tried switching to Xfce, and found it to be a lot better than Gnome 3,
> but it was still missing a lot of things I'm accustomed to in Gnome 2.
>
> I'm not trying to start another advocacy thread. I'm just trying to
> package up an alternative for people
Hi,
What do you think about Trinity Desktop? I liked KDE3. Is there a
chance to include this DE in Fedora? Unlike the MATE, TD is well
maintained and there is a development community.
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Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2011, 19:50 -0800 schrieb Eric Smith:
> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
> GNOME 2.
MATE is just replacing "gnome" with "mate" everywhere, whether or not it
w
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> I'd rather help others with transition to Gnome3, as some active
members of our local
> community (Russian Fedora) does.
I've spent months trying to get used to Gnome 3, and had lots of help
from various people, and I still can't stand it. Yes, I know that there
are p
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:24 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello
>
> 2011/12/9 Eric Smith :
> > I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> > desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
> > GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months
Hello
2011/12/9 Eric Smith :
> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
> GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to package the
> remaining MATE packages.
Mate is unmaintained (e.
On 12/09/2011 09:20 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
> desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
> GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to package the
> remaining MATE packages.
>
> Would
I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE
desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of
GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to package the
remaining MATE packages.
Would anyone like to see the MATE desktop environment as an
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