  Re: debian mate  Am 21.11.2012 03:23, schrieb Russ Allbery:
Michael Schmitt<tcwardrobe@gmail.com>  writes:  as I see you, as
a member of ctte, are kind of in favour of MATE for jessie and
not wheezy... :( I have no opinion on MATE.  I personally
switched from GNOME 2 to Xfce on the one system where I use an
integrated desktop when gnome-shell wouldn't run due to the age
of the graphics and the fallback for some reason didn't function
properly.  (This was *right* after it landed in unstable, and I
Xfce since I make a personal policy of changing desktop
environments every pursue it further.)  I can say that, as a
light GNOME user, switching to Xfce was trivial.  It took me all
of an hour.  But I can be a somewhat atypical user. I guess so
very much! :) But then again, who is the "typical" user? First,
at the end, congrats, I dropped the idea to pursue this insane
idea any further! I still believe there will be much grief for
wheezy desktop users, but that's just how it is. I do understand
the reasons behind t