MATE Desktop

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-07-21, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 20 July 2012 19:24, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are there any plans to offer an option for the MATE desktop at the
>> system install in future versions of Ubuntu?
>
> No. Ubuntu has never offered a choice of desktops in the main distro &
> I doubt it ever will.

What do you mean by "in the main distro"?  I have what I think of as
the main distro & packages are available to run GNOME 3, GNOME
Classic, XFCE, &c.

I'm using GNOME Classic and I didn't find it difficult to add,
although it wasn't installed by default.