freebsd-ports/x11/mate-base/pkg-descr

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to users using
traditional metaphors.

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Where does the name come from?

The name "MATE" comes from yerba mate, a species of holly native
to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are
used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.

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This metaport installs only MATE base (lite, a lean desktop) with
file manager without any of extra applications. If you want to
have the most common user MATE applications, please install the
x11/mate metaport.

WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/
Say hello to Mate 1.6. Mate is a lite desktop forked from gnome2. Most of the work is done by Jeremy Messenger (mezz@). The only thing I did was update a few ports to later 1.6 release and attempting to keep up with ports infra changes. Resulting bugs are all mine. Mate is a sort of replacement for Gnome 2. So people wanting to keep a Gnome 2 like desktop should switch. Gnome 2 will be replaced by Gnome 3 in the near future. This switch will be announce with a transition time so people have more time to switch if they haven't already. This release was made possible by everyone that send friendly pokes to keep mate on my mind. Approved by: portmgr (bapt) 2013-11-23 11:39:07 +00:00			`MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.`

			`It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to users using`
			`traditional metaphors.`

			`--`

			`Where does the name come from?`

			`The name "MATE" comes from yerba mate, a species of holly native`
			`to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are`
			`used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.`

			`--`

			`This metaport installs only MATE base (lite, a lean desktop) with`
			`file manager without any of extra applications. If you want to`
			`have the most common user MATE applications, please install the`
			`x11/mate metaport.`

			`WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/`