Re: [gnome-flashback] OT: ANNOUNCE: gnome-panel and gnome-flashback-session 3.8.0 release

["Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jonathan ubuntu com>]

On 26/09/2013 10:30, Michael Steenbeek wrote:
> I would say that, for projects with (unsurprisingly) very similar code
> and a very similar scope, good cooperation only makes sense. As for the
> usage of Gnome 3 technologies, MATE has moved to GSettings and work is
> currently underway (the bulk of which is done by László Boros) to allow
> MATE to be compiled in GTK+ 3, while maintaining compatibility with GTK+
> 2. This also applies to the window manager Marco (forked from Metacity).
> Perhaps, but this is speculation, Metacity and Marco will be so similar
> that merging them will be better than maintaining them as separate
> projects.
> (Views on this from the MATE devs would be nice.)

That would be nice, I doubt that much of Metacity would need to be 
merged, afaik no one currently wants to maintain it so it would be 
really great to have a drop-in replacement that's maintained.

-Jonathan