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On 24/11/11 16:17, George Parker wrote:
On 24/11/11 13:59, Rhia Knowles wrote:There is a fork of Gnome2 called 'Mate'. Its available in Arch Linux, from the Arch User Repository. Chances look good it will be kept as up to date as is humanly possible.Some of the forums are saying that Mate is very much still in development. I'll give it a go in a month or 2. George
Yes, mate is quite new. It is not yet deb-packaged. We will have to see how it develops but I expect most of those who can't or won't run gnome3 will shift to xfce.
Trinity, however, has been going since the demise of kde3. TDE has been main desktop here since before Squeeze went stable with good results. They have some heavyweight devs (e.g. Timothy Pearson, ex-Kubuntu) and seem well-established enough to be taken seriously. The latest 3.5.13 release is better than kde 3.4.10. There are bugs (so has kde4); there are no show-stoppers.
If you want to try Trinity with Debian Testing (or any variant of) be prepared for breakages, It works at the moment but you need a few libs from Squeeze.
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