Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Your Reviews for select Mate Desktop and not Gnome 3 in the next version

[al3xu5 / dotcommon]

Il giorno mercoledì 19/03/2014 16:24:38 CET
HacKurx <address@hidden> ha scritto:

> I wonder if it would be better to use Mate Desktop instead of gnome 3 in 
> next versions of gNewSense?
> Mate Desktop is not included in debian 7 but will be in debian 8, it is 
> nevertheless easy to add it. The advantage for me is to keep the same 
> user interface between versions, have a lightweight desktop, rhythm of 
> slower development and have a free code easier to maintain.
> 
> What do you think of this?

I totally agree.

Actually I have Mate 1.6 on one of my computers (the last release is 1.8,
Debian 8 will probably have Mate 1.10). It works well and I prefer it to gnome
3 (Mate is a fork of gnome 2): cleaner, lighter, faster...

Regards
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