Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by type0 on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:14AM
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MATE is really a better GNOME2, some ppl don't want to believe it. There is somehow a parallel to OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Many non techy ppl don't know what forking is (for them it sounds as fornication). It adds to the confusion and we end up with a lot of users hesitating to try a better software.
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by int_19h on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:26PM
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I'm not sure MATE can be treated as "Gnome2 under a different name" at this point. While it started as a fork, they're doing some pretty massive refactoring, like gradually moving to Gtk3.