MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

Fri Dec 9 11:50:29 UTC 2011

On 12/09/2011 03:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
> Would anyone like to see the MATE desktop environment as an official
> feature of Fedora 17 or Fedora 18?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765666
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765667
>

Is it not better to just create extension and an theme on spin with 
gnome3 that bring back the functionality you seek?

JBG