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by t3g » Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:47 pm
I know there are already too many desktop environments in the wild now, but why was Cinnamon created? I'm curious if the time and resources would be better spent into refining the Gnome Shell and its extensions in addition to MATE.
I know the strength of open source is that anyone can create anything and put it into the wild. The big weakness is that there are clashes of egos and if these people got together and tried to refine the things they use instead of forking, we would have higher quality products instead of a handful of clones that either die out quickly due to lack of interest or are watered down.
I would love to see MATE become more refined. If you want to kill it, then too bad. Maybe you should have thought of that before getting people excited about it with the previous release. I know you guys have a decent sized team, but you will eventually be supporting Gnome Shell, Gnome Shell MGSE, Cinnamon, and MATE on a single release. This doesn't include your KDE, LXDE, and two variants of Gnome and XFCE on Debian.
Are you ready for the challenge?