MATE Desktop

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-07-24, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 22 July 2012 21:12, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Your last line answers the question in your first.
>
> When you install Ubuntu, it does not ask you what desktop you want. By
> comparison, other distribution, such as SUSE, Mandriva or Debian, do.
>
> Only 1 desktop comes on the Ubuntu CD. Others must be downloaded &
> installed. The same is true of all the remixes, too.

True, but a lot of useful stuff isn't on the CD (700 MB doesn't get
you as far these days), and you can install the alternative desktops
straight from the Ubuntu repositories (without adding things to
/etc/apt/sources.list.d, I mean).