Re: MATE Desktop support?

2023-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Pavel Solovev said: > MATE follows the even stable / odd unstable versioning system. 1.27 is an > under development,pre-release. Ahh, my mistake then! Sorry about that. I guess I run into that type of versioning less these days, so it didn't cross my mind. Now if I can just

Re: MATE Desktop support?

2023-04-29 Thread Pavel Solovev
MATE follows the even stable / odd unstable versioning system. 1.27 is an under development,pre-release. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

MATE Desktop support?

2023-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
I was trying to figure out some issues I'm seeing with mate-media (which don't appear to be addressed upstream), and noticed that Fedora has 1.26.1 while upstream released 1.27.0 last November (and 1.27.1 last month). Is MATE still getting support in Fedora? I would have thought Fedora 38 at

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Greg Bailey wrote: I think I tried building Mate 1.22 on CentOS 7 but ran into issues where it needed a newer GCC than CentOS 7 provides, and I wasn't up for the complexity challenge of building it using a different toolchain...  :) CentOS 7 has the softwarecollections

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Greg Bailey
On 6/5/20 10:35 AM, H wrote: On June 5, 2020 11:21:07 AM EDT, Greg Bailey wrote: On 6/5/20 2:21 AM, Menanteau wrote: Hi there, is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? There was a demand to update to Mate 1.8 years ago but I didn't see any answer.  Mate 1.24 is currently available. Thanks

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread H
On June 5, 2020 11:21:07 AM EDT, Greg Bailey wrote: >On 6/5/20 2:21 AM, Menanteau wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? >> >> There was a demand to update to Mate 1.8 years ago but I didn't see >> any answer.  Mate 1.24 is currently available. >> >> Thanks > >I run

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Greg Bailey
On 6/5/20 2:21 AM, Menanteau wrote: Hi there, is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? There was a demand to update to Mate 1.8 years ago but I didn't see any answer.  Mate 1.24 is currently available. Thanks I run Mate on both CentOS 7 and CentOS 8. For CentOS 7, I run Mate 1.20 using

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 05:21, Menanteau wrote: > Hi there, > > is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? > > EPEL is not a distribution and does not have 'plans' to produce things for certain releases. Nobody is paid to work on EPEL versus paid to work on Fedora so the packages here are those that

[EPEL-devel] Re: Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Troy Dawson
If you (or others) haven't already done so, a bugzilla requesting an update might be best. Many times packagers aren't on the epel-devel mailing list, and/or have it filtered. On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:22 AM Menanteau wrote: > > Hi there, > > is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? > > There was

[EPEL-devel] Mate desktop environment update

2020-06-05 Thread Menanteau
Hi there, is there a plan to update Mate in EPEL ? There was a demand to update to Mate 1.8 years ago but I didn't see any answer.  Mate 1.24 is currently available. Thanks ___ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-26 Thread Fred Liu
the former. From: Trey Dockendorf [mailto:treyd...@gmail.com] Sent: 星期四, 四月 26, 2018 2:31 To: EPEL Development List Subject: [EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop Could look into Pulp, https://pulpproject.org/, which I've used in the past to freeze a copy of EPEL locally to avoid

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Trey Dockendorf
RHEL release. There are a number of fixes >> >in 7.4 >> >> >> and 7.5 that are really worth it. >> >> >> >> >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> >> >> On 04/25/2018 09:09 AM, Fred Liu wrote: >> >> >> &

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Liu
gt; >> >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> On 04/25/2018 09:09 AM, Fred Liu wrote: >> >> >> >> So abandon SL7.3? Does it mean EPEL doesn't have consistent >> compatibility? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> &

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
3? Does it mean EPEL doesn’t have consistent >> compatibility? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Liu
on SL7.3? Does it mean EPEL doesn’t have consistent > compatibility? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Fred > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" < > riehe...@fnal.gov>

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
have consistent compatibility? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" <riehe...@fnal.gov> >> wrote: >> >>> I would recommend updating to SL 7.4 >>

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Liu
ehecky" <riehe...@fnal.gov<mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov>> wrote: I would recommend updating to SL 7.4 Pat On 04/25/2018 08:37 AM, Fred Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But > today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility &

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Pat Riehecky
t;Pat Riehecky" <riehe...@fnal.gov <mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov>> wrote: I would recommend updating to SL 7.4 Pat On 04/25/2018 08:37 AM, Fred Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But > tod

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Liu
Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But > today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility > issues(glib2,gtk3+,etc). And I can successfully install it on OL7.5. > Is normal? From my understanding, EPEL7 should work in

[EPEL-devel] Re: incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Pat Riehecky
I would recommend updating to SL 7.4 Pat On 04/25/2018 08:37 AM, Fred Liu wrote: Hi, I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility issues(glib2,gtk3+,etc). And I can successfully install it on OL7.5. Is normal? From my

[EPEL-devel] incompatibility issue for mate-desktop

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Liu
Hi, I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility issues(glib2,gtk3+,etc). And I can successfully install it on OL7.5. Is normal? From my understanding, EPEL7 should work in both OSes. Any ideas? Thanks. Fred

[EPEL-devel] Mate desktop environment 1.8?

2017-09-16 Thread Ken Taylor
Hello and please allow a long term CentOS user to say THANK YOU! for your efforts to make available a wide variety of packages for RHEL/CentOS. I am currently running CentOS 7.3 + "X Window system" + mate-desktop-environment on several machines. Works great! However, the recent up

[EPEL-devel] Re: MATE Desktop in EPEL repository

2017-05-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 17 May 2017 at 04:32, Arnold Fabian1 <arnold.fab...@hu.ibm.com> wrote: > Dear Team > > I would have a question regarding EPEL repository for RHEL 7.x > I can see, that the MATE Desktop 1.18 released in 2017-03-13 > but in the EPEL repository, it is not available yet, o

[EPEL-devel] Re: MATE Desktop in EPEL repository

2017-05-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
: > > > Dear Team > > I would have a question regarding EPEL repository for RHEL 7.x > I can see, that the MATE Desktop 1.18 released in 2017-03-13 > but in the EPEL repository, it is not available yet, only the 1.16: > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/m/ > >

[EPEL-devel] MATE Desktop in EPEL repository

2017-05-17 Thread Arnold Fabian1
Dear Team I would have a question regarding EPEL repository for RHEL 7.x I can see, that the MATE Desktop 1.18 released in 2017-03-13 but in the EPEL repository, it is not available yet, only the 1.16: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/m/ Also I would have another question: F3

F21 Self Contained Change: MATE Desktop 1.8

2014-04-02 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: MATE Desktop 1.8 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MATE_1.8 Change owner(s): Dan Mashal dan.mas...@fedoraproject.org, Wolfgang Ulbrich chat-to...@raveit.de Update MATE Desktop to version 1.8 == Detailed Description == Release 1.8 * New features

mate-desktop 1.8

2014-03-14 Thread Brian Millett
What is the prospect of getting mate 1.8 for fedora 20? Thanks. -- Brian Millett I can't see him through this encounter suit. 'Trust me, its better this way.' -- [ Alexander and Kyle (re: Kosh), The Gathering] -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: mate-desktop 1.8

2014-03-14 Thread Dan Mashal
On Mar 14, 2014 7:52 AM, Brian Millett bmill...@gmail.com wrote: What is the prospect of getting mate 1.8 for fedora 20? Prospect is good. We're QAing on Rawhide at the moment. Dan Sent from my Google Nexus 5 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: mate-desktop 1.8

2014-03-14 Thread Brian Millett
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:09:42 -0700 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 14, 2014 7:52 AM, Brian Millett bmill...@gmail.com wrote: What is the prospect of getting mate 1.8 for fedora 20? Prospect is good. We're QAing on Rawhide at the moment. Dan Sent from my Google Nexus

Unowned dirs used by Mate Desktop packages

2013-05-10 Thread Alex G.
.i686 : Displays menus for MATE Desktop ... mate-window-manager-1.5.2-7.fc18.i686 : MATE Desktop window manager ... (Duplicates removed from output) But when we check who owns that dir, we get zip: $ yum provides /usr/share/mate/ No Matches found Another one: $ yum provides /usr/lib/caja/* mate

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-02-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
One additional question on the feature... from the feature page: Fedora 16/17/18 are already running MATE Desktop 1.5.5 which is the development release of 1.6 Is there a reason for a development release being pushed to stable releases? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-30 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:52:28 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: ...snip... I note this feature doesn't seem to incorporate adding a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:21:15 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Kevin. MATE 1.6 + Compiz spin submitted last night. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MATE_%2B_Compiz_Spin Live image available for testing here: http://bitchx.ca/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso Have at

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-30 Thread Dan Mashal
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:21:15 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Kevin. MATE 1.6 + Compiz spin submitted last night. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MATE_%2B_Compiz_Spin Live image available for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:52:28 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: ...snip... I note this feature doesn't seem to incorporate adding a MATE spin - is a separate feature page proposed for that, or is it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 18:26 +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 Feature owner(s): Dan Mashal dan.mashal AT fedoraproject DOT org MATE Desktop is based on GNOME 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-28 Thread Dan Mashal
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 18:26 +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 Feature owner(s): Dan Mashal dan.mashal AT fedoraproject DOT org MATE

Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 Feature owner(s): Dan Mashal dan.mashal AT fedoraproject DOT org MATE Desktop is based on GNOME 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users who seek a simple, easy to use traditional

Proposed F19 Feature: MATE Desktop 1.6

2013-01-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop-1.6 Feature owner(s): Dan Mashal dan.mashal AT fedoraproject DOT org MATE Desktop is based on GNOME 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users who seek a simple, easy to use traditional

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
for the positive contributions you made, and in your future endeavors. -- rex No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 That thread

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Matthias Runge
the expression on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840149#c5 on 14-07-2012 And he asked to have his account 1 month ago : https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3399 , on 25-07-2012. The same day, he also posted that about the issue : https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate

Re: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Stefano Karapetsas
, as now Dan's perception of you (and now potentially others) will be colored as hostile. Hi, I'm one of MATE Desktop upstream developers. I'm sorry for my intrusion here, but I feel the need to write my opinion in this thread. We already worked with a lot of distros maintainers and always worked

Re: Re: Mate-Desktop: please moderate

2012-08-28 Thread Rex Dieter
taking your greivances public, as now Dan's perception of you (and now potentially others) will be colored as hostile. Hi, I'm one of MATE Desktop upstream developers. I'm sorry for my intrusion here, but I feel the need to write my opinion in this thread. We already worked with a lot

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-27 Thread Adam Williamson
you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 That thread contains no instance of Dan calling you a Portuguese n00b. It contains only an instance of you accusing Dan of having

Mate-Desktop

2012-08-27 Thread Christopher Meng
I think it's time to stop making argument or statement.This email really makes me feel confused. I understand Rave's state of mind.Well,I think you have 2 choices, leave or just go ahead. But you don't want to leave,so please do some other works,not only the mate desktop. I hope you can feel

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Scherer
, and in your future endeavors. -- rex No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 That thread contains no instance of Dan

Re: Subject: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-25 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
endeavors. -- rex No mercy, no thanks. Why do you Mr. Rex Dieter as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-25 Thread Rave it
working group for guidance, advice, and mediation. (my fault for being too dense for not suggesting it earlier, sorry). -- rex No need for mediation because i will stay in in fedora community, but working at Mate-Desktop is impossible for me until Dan Mashal to refrain from taking on this project

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Brendan Jones
On 08/23/2012 04:53 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Rave it wrote: For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project for f18 because I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble communicating and working together. I do wish to thank you for the positive

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Subject: Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rave it
speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Rex Dieter
as sponsor accept rude speaking, and racist remarks from Dan Marchal? 'Portuguese n00b' https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-doc-utils/issues/3 I don't accept it. Dan reacting poorly is a given, and something he (and I with him) are working on. I personally don't feel it helps taking your

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Rave it wrote: For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project for f18 because I can understand your frustration, and that you and Dan had trouble communicating and working together. I do wish to thank you for the positive contributions you made, and in your future

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Spura
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: Ri == Rave it chat-to...@raveit.de writes: Ri For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project Ri for f18 because for me it is imposssible to to work together with Ri Dan Mashal. One

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-22 Thread Brendan Jones
On 08/21/2012 11:50 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: As a reminder, everyone working within the Fedora project is expected to abide by the code of conduct (http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct). If there's an interpersonal conflict that can't be resolved by the individuals or the specific subset

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Brendan Jones wrote: I understand Dan's fairly new to Fedora - perhaps his sponsor should have a word with him. Would it be enough to CC Rex? Or should we open a ticket on a trac of one of the Fedora committees? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Mate-Desktop

2012-08-21 Thread Rave it
For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project for f18 because for me it is imposssible to to work together with Dan Mashal. One of the reason for my decision is this last talk with Dan Mashal today. Unterhaltung mit Dan Mashal am Di 21 Aug 2012 10:03:44 CEST: (10:03

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-21 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
Ri == Rave it chat-to...@raveit.de writes: Ri For your information. I stoped working for the Mate-Desktop project Ri for f18 because for me it is imposssible to to work together with Ri Dan Mashal. One of the reason for my decision is this last talk with Ri Dan Mashal today. I've watched

Re: Mate-Desktop

2012-08-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
As a reminder, everyone working within the Fedora project is expected to abide by the code of conduct (http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct). If there's an interpersonal conflict that can't be resolved by the individuals or the specific subset of the project involved, please feel free to

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2012-01-27 Thread Eric Smith
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2012-01-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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-corba

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-11 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
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 desktop

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-10 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
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 let live.

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-10 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
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 the

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Christoph Wickert
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Michał Piotrowski
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. -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Murphy
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 like

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
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 package

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
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 anyone

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 GNOME 2

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
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 solution is to fix

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
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 months

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 packages in the

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-09 Thread Heiko Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-08 Thread 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. Would anyone like to see the MATE desktop environment

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-08 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello 2011/12/9 Eric Smith e...@brouhaha.com: 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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:24 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello 2011/12/9 Eric Smith e...@brouhaha.com: 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

Re: MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

2011-12-08 Thread Eric Smith
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