[arch-general] end of the war! Mate has come to archlinux...

[Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:54:30 +0100
> schrieb "Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana" <dottorblaster at archlinux.us>:



I hope this will not happen. I never liked Gnome for a lot of reasons,
> and KDE4 and the fact that Xfce is so different from Gnome was the
> reason for switching to Xfce. If Xfce will become a Gnome 2 fork then
> there will be no good DE anymore.
>
> If someone wants to keep Gnome2 he shall switch to Mate.
>

Right.
But IMHO XFCE misses some neat features like a decent power manager. I
would only like a more complete set of applications/options
environment-related :)

Bl at ster