Haven't the old gnome devs created mate? 
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On 1 Oct 2012, at 23:17, "Andy Smith" <andy@???> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Vic wrote:
>> 
>>> GNOME 2 is dead.
>> 
>> ...And looking remarkably sprightly on my Fedora 16 laptop...
> 
> But it is the case that upstream is not developing it anymore, isn't
> it?
> 
> Also I have seen the fork of Gnome "classic" (I forget its name now)
> derided on the debian-devel list as being "generated by sed", as in
> they ran sed over the Gnome code base to rename everything to their
> new name, but without having any actual developers to carry the
> project on.
> 
> From all of that I was under the impression that "sticking with
> Gnome Classic" was not really a long-term option, it would be either
> Unity, Gnome 3 or a completely different desktop environment.
> 
> Is this not the case?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
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