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MATEMATEPosted Nov 7, 2011 15:37 UTC (Mon) by nteon (subscriber, #53899)Parent article: A Linux Mint 12 preview This was the first I've heard of MATE, a "non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork".
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The age of the Great Forks Posted Nov 8, 2011 6:55 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] So MATE is to Gnome, what Trinity is to KDE. There really seems to be serious resistance against new developments in both major desktops, for people to bother making forks of such huge software systems.Personally I feel "late-model" KDE3 is possibly the most usable Linux desktop system I have used, and curiously it is even relatively light-weight by today's standards. So Trinity, if it keeps going, might be interesting.
MATE Posted Nov 8, 2011 8:39 UTC (Tue) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
It doesn't really seem to be under development though. There are a few more forks like this. Only noticed renaming of the modules, not any bugfixing / development.
Free Software, so (IMO) nothing wrong with more developers going in another direction.
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