Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:10:17 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MATE 'base' desktop is ready for anyone to test it. Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vkbXOwjYZHm-NNEkJeiY5cmW3NVVVFMcpMkDPUNCC%2BKQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALa-7vxiLPzbttibHMAy0tj56SCPEF0tSRkpJLPuS6jj6T4a1g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADLFtte=DUiyFshU0Shu_ePLJQtTYDDi%2B_noAH5gBfryR%2BpxAQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADLFttcROciV2pneBYijU9%2B0pQu6m_8Z25mqfxks%2BePWDa8A_g@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1ty3EJhf0zdnSi82ngwjBV3MFyNkcMoknvrCy7GmqW5Ug@mail.gmail.com> <CALa-7vxiLPzbttibHMAy0tj56SCPEF0tSRkpJLPuS6jj6T4a1g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: >> Looks like MATE is gathering steam. I saw that Fedora is switching >> from Gnome3 to MATE > > Are you sure? Can you point me to announce, e-mail in mailing list or > something like that? Not the messages like "now MATE available for > Fedora", but "Fedora prefers MATE over Gnome3" or "MATE is the default > DE for Fedora replacing Gnome3", or something like that. > > Reason: Fedora is RedHat project. Gnome3 driven by RedHat people > mostly. Therefore, "Fedora switches from Gnome to MATE" essencially > would to mean "RedHat switches has focus from Gnome to MATE" that > would to mean "Gnome loses the major supporter and driving force". > > Therefore: please, point me to the source of your "Fedora is switching > from Gnome3 to MATE" statement or be more accurate in citing and/or > interpretation. > > "MATE proposed to inclusion into Fedora 18" absolutelly not equal to > "MATE replaces Gnome3 in in Fedora 18" nor "Fedora 18 switches from > Gnome3 to MATE". > > -- > Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop It reads to me like MATE is planned for 18, but I will concede that I may be reading too much into it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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