Fedora and MATE desktop

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 09/21/2012 04:15 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 21 September 2012 12:32, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop for your reference
>> It's not a small job that's for sure.
> I'm not sure I see the point. mate-power-manager is just the output of
> a sed script changing all instances of GNOME to MATE of a specific
> release in time. In about 2 years time there's going to be ~50
> packages that have had close to 0% upstream work since forking. I'm
> the original author of gnome-power-manager and have zero interest in
> keeping such an old branch working. As technologies change (e.g.
> moving from HAL to UPower and UDisks) the MATE desktop is going to be
> harder to ship as it'll have to include things like mate-hal,
> mate-gvfs-compat and mate-glib-compat. I'm not sure that's the kind of
> thing we want in Fedora[1] given how strict we are about making other
> common code abstracted out in managed shared libraries.
>
> Richard.
>
> [1] Given there are security things like  libmatekeyring dealing with
> passwords, which are basically unmaintained and do not get the latest
> security updates.


Probably it would be easier to theme and provide extensions to Gnome 3.x 
( and just maintain those )  to yield the same end result but hey if 
they are willing to put the time and effort into doing and maintaining 
this it's their call.

It's all part of the Freedom in Fedora.

JBG