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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by pantalaimon on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:21AM (#32375616)
The sad part is that Gnome 2 had a whole ecosystem of third party software that integrated with it. Just a few of that got ported over to Mate (usually just s/GNOME/MATE/g) but it never gained the same traction.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:52AM (#32376475)
Why did it need to be ported at all? Shouldn't it "just work"?
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by pantalaimon on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:07AM (#32376573)
Mate had to change all “Gnome” strings to “Mate” so both could be packaged/installed in parallel and probably also for legal reasons.

This means all DBus interfaces need to use the new name, a nautilus plugin must now call caja functions instead and so on.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:53AM (#32376927)
...huh, well that's frustrating! Could this be solved with a basic compatibility layer?
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by mycall on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:58AM (#32377440)
or decompile, touch strings, then recompile.
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