On 06/03/2014 05:36 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Again, I don't want to degrade the MATE project or your packaging > effort, not at all. But my questions and concerns are serious. I still > do not get the point of the whole MATE desktop now that it tries to run > behind and catch up with GNOME again.
Speaking as an individual, I do appreciate the effort of the MATE team. My experience with GNOME Flashback has ranged from very bad to incredibly frustrating, up to the point that I decided to switch to Xfce and I have, since, been happy again. Just before writing this message, I tested GNOME Flashback once again on my Sid box and it does not unpaint some windows (tried with the menu and GNOME Terminal). This is not only a show stopper, it's an elemental mistake. I couldn't be able to say if it's a packaging problem or a GNOME Flashback problem. I run GNOME Flashback under Ubuntu at work. At that moment, when I installed it I had to diagnose a terrible a memory leak that came from upstream. I know Ubuntu is not Debian, but the memory leak was eventually acknowledged and fixed by upstream. OTOH, GNOME Classic just runs on top of GNOME Shell, suffering from the same drawbacks like resource consumption and the tablet-like UX paradigm (just a bit less sucky). >From my point of view, GNOME Flashback just doesn't have enough love from --pretty much-- anybody; this includes the GNOME team: no news about GNOME Flashback in the 3.10 or 3.12 release notes (it was first released in 3.8). I will, of course, test MATE in the upcoming days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
