On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > What's wrong with MATE?
It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. > Xfce hasn't done anything interesting in years, and I've seen > big bugs in Xfce that still need fixing that are even more glaring than > most of MATE's. It's wanted that it doesn't change that much. What are those bugs? > I like MATE because they've kept the (Excellent.) GNOME 2 desktop alive No, it's not GNOME2. > I do think Cinnamon could be loads better, but it's not terrible, either. Than you don't use a ATI graphics with the FLOSS driver? I suspect you don't know all important things from GNOME2 and yo never compared GNOME2 and it's forks running top. > I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found > it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop > environments around to being one of the absolute slowest. Again! The OP is used to GNOME2 and the best replacement to GNOME2 is Xfce. The OP shouldn't use > MATE from its third party > Debian repository At the forums they claim gvfs isn't a dependency for the Debian repository, but they only support it when gvfs is installed. And packages could conflict with packages from official repositories. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1378195701.899.22.camel@archlinux
