Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 03-10-2013 12:42, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: >> Kenno Han wrote: >>> Hey everyone! I just found an interesting program that can be used to >>> replace GNOME. It is called Mate Desktop, some of you might be familiar >>> with it. Mate is actually a fork from GNOME 2. >>> >>> Maybe you should just check out their website at: >>> http://mate-desktop.org >> >> This is an interesting idea, but I have a few questions about it. I >> don't know how well it's supported. From what I can tell, it's based on >> GTK+2 and I don't know how well that will continue to be supported. >> >> We had a go at Trinity a while back as an alternative to KDE3, but that >> project didn't really have the support needed to keep up to date, >> especially to keep Qt3 up to date. I don't know what kind of ongoing >> support GTK+2 will have. >> >> I'm willing to look at Mate, but I think we would need to assure >> ourselves that upstream long term support would be available. I see >> that it is supported by the Linux Mint developers, so the support issue >> may be OK.
> I like very much Mint Mate, more than Cinnamon. > > However, I do note see it as a sign that there will be long term > support. I used to like Mint LXDE, but it was discontinued. > > Also, IIRC, Ken has some experience with it, but gave up, after some > problem(s?). Actually, I'm personally quite happy with xfce. I'd only consider Mate for other users of the book. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
