Mate desktop for Saucy?

[James Freer]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 September 2013 23:17, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I thought Mate was just a new
>> gnome...
>
> No. Maté is a fork of GNOME 2, which was discontinued by the GNOME
> Project when GNOME 3 came out.
>
>>  the renaming of apps e.g. gedit now Puma (I think) makes for
>> confusion.
>
> They *had* to do this. If the package names were not all changed, then
> it would be impossible to install Maté alongside GNOME 3. Also note
> that the original developer of Maté is Argentinian, so he has chosen
> package names that are names, puns etc. /in Spanish/ not in English.
> --
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Thanks for correcting me. I had a brief look but I still prefer
xubuntu so I didn't really read fully into Mate and it's development.

james