Re: [Trisquel-users] GTK2 GNOME in Trisquel6

[tegskywalker]

Gnome 3 sucks and even Debian 7 will use XFCE by default when it hits stable:  
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTk

As for MATE, you can nab it at http://mate-desktop.org/install/#ubuntu and  
use older trisquel-gtk-theme and trisquel-icon-theme packages from Dagda to  
get the look.