Hey guys, I've switched to Xfce, but being built on GTK2 it relies on a lot
of components that the GNOME 3 team has screwed with to oblivion. Many apps
still need GTK2 theme support and it appears this is gone as well. Either
way, plain old Xfce is at least useful, more than I can say for GNOME 3 or
Unity.
If the packaging team is so quick to put new stuff in Trisquel to screw over
everyone's desktop, why haven't they put MATE in yet? Gnome 2 was very smoth
and functional so I see no reason to remove old Gnome 2 from Trisquel
repository.
I'm sorry, but the GNOME 3 team changed too many things and screwed up all
the paradigms of traditional desktop computing. I want to be able to see what
I have open without doing extra work. I want to customize everything. I
pretty much need icons on my desktop. I also see no reason to obliterate the
whole screen just to display a programs menu which could easily fit in a much
smaller space while providing the exact same functionality. I like running
the same desktop environment on old machines and new machines, including ones
without 3D accelerated GPU's necessary to run GNOME3. I use multiple
monitors, which work well with many windows open, and need a way to manage
those open windows efficiently. I play games, which sometimes requires that
GPU resources be used for the game itself, not the window manager surrounding
the game window. I do a bunch of other stuff too, and none of it fits well
with the changes that the GNOME team has made, and I think it was quite
irresponsible of them to pull such a drastic change under the same name
without forking the old project.
If anyone has experience installing MATE on Trisquel 5.5, I would love to
know.
Are there any plans to include Mate in Trisquel 6?
