MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:24:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 12:50 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> That's pretty much was Mint seems to be doing and I agree that this is 
> probably a much more viable approach:
> 
> http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2011/11/30/linux-mint-12/

[Reviving an old thread ...]

Indeed this seems to be not just vapourware:

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=119

Rich.

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