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Re: Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04

To: Aere Greenway <aere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>, lubuntu user list <lubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lubuntu QA <lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Dale Visser <dale.visser@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:59:44 -0400
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In-reply-to: <544FC6A0.60706@Dvorak-Keyboards.com>

> There is a new Ubuntu variant, called "ubuntuMATE", which has a desktop 
> based on Gnome 2.
> 
> In reading about it, I got the impression (which may not be correct) 
> that they are maintaining Gnome 2 (and its libraries).

It is my understanding from a recent interview (http://mate-desktop.org/blog/mate-interview-with-linux-luddites/) with Martin Winpress (a contributor to both MATE Desktop and Ubuntu MATE), that MATE is being transitioned to gtk3. Here's a status page: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:gtk3

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Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04
From: Julien Lavergne, 2014-10-28
Re: Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04
From: Aere Greenway, 2014-10-28