Hello
2011/12/9 Eric Smith <eric(a)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 is unmaintained (e.g. "maintained" by unqualified enough) and
doesn't attract any significant interest from the community except few
blog-posts from newcomers and distrohoppers who underestimate the
necessary amount of work required to fork Gnome. Thus I believe this
could be no more than a constant source of troubles. I'd rather help
others with transition to Gnome3, as some active members of our local
community (Russian Fedora) does.
Would anyone like to see the MATE desktop environment as an official
feature of Fedora 17 or Fedora 18?
No. That's just my opinion but you asked for it.
--
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.