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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/G

• Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  Why did it need to be ported at all? Shouldn't it "just work"?
  • pantalaimon 4y ago
    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.
    • Wowfunhappy 4y ago
      ...huh, well that's frustrating! Could this be solved with a basic compatibility layer?
      • mycall 4y ago
        or decompile, touch strings, then recompile.