> I'm willing to bet that the people who want/use/develop this do not believe that there is another project doing the same thing - even if it might not appear l

> I'm willing to bet that the people who want/use/develop this do not believe that there is another project doing the same thing - even if it might not appear like that to everyone (i mean, you read comments about people wondering why there are so many distributions and why not everyone works on a single one to make it the best :-P). Haha. People are harder to deal with. It's just easier to fork! ;) > Why temporary? The developers and users of TDE may prefer the way KDE3 does things or Qt3 or whatever that wouldn't work with anything that came after. I agree. While I wouldn't be a fan of it, I can understand changes are harder to accept for people (including me sometimes.) > MATE is an interesting case - IMO MATE should have forked Gtk+ 2 instead of switching to Gtk+ 3 because Gtk+ 3 has a different "feel" to it that -again, IMO- is much worse (and feels a bit sluggier) than Gtk+ 2. This would also help the ton of other projects that at the time were still stuck in Gtk+ 2 and would waste a lot of time down the road to converting their code to Gtk+ 3 while also preserving Gtk+ 2 as a stable API for GUI applications that was still in widespread availability. > Of course it is too late now. Never thought about it this way. I totally agree with you. It was GTK2 which should've been forked and maintained.