[Fedora-spins] Creating a Cinnamon & Mate spin

[Bill Nottingham]

Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> On 09/26/2012 03:50 PM, Sam Burgos wrote:
> >Greetings, my name is Jose Santiago Burgos and I'm from El Salvador, i
> >do hope that you can do your activities as usual
> >
> >The reason of my mail is that while I was downloading an XFCE Fedora
> >Spin for a friend, i tought and ask myself: "Why we cannot have another
> >special spin given the popularity of some recent Desktops Environments
> >(DE). I mean with MATE and Cinnamon
> 
> You certainly are welcome to help make such spins of course.
> 
> Being involved with MATE, I can say that our current and primary focus is
> 1.  get MATE into fedora packaging-wise.
> 
> Then
> 
> 2.  make it easily installable via comps group(s) and what-not.

There's a bug request for this for MATE that I'm intending to sort through
late this week/early next week, but that's only part of what's needed as a
spin as stated below.

Bill

> 
> Then,
> 
> 3.  the option of doing the work of making a spin based on it is a
> possibility.
> 
> The status quo is that 1 is almost done with a basic desktop
> (optional pieces will be added over time).  2. is in the planning
> stages.  not even thinking about 3 yet.
> 
> -- rex
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