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

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:24:38 +0100
schreef HacKurx <address@hidden>:

> 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?

My position remains the same as a fortnight ago [1]: I prefer to stick
to Debian's defaults unless there's a good reason to spend time and
effort on it. Personal preference is not convincing unless you commit
yourself to maintain the necessary diff with Debian until Parkes+2.

[1]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2014-03/msg00017.html