Look, why don’t you take a look at the many threads that have been posted about the panel breaking and the icons being the wrong sizes?
These are issues that have been known for a while. These are papercuts that make the whole distro look bad. So when the lead developer spends their time making layouts for other desktops instead of making sure that the Traditional desktop layout continues to work and then decides to hide the Traditional layout, still unfixed people get nervous.
I… I… get nervous. Considering the complete lack of response to some of these issues, which I’d like to remind you are very similar to ones which came up shortly before Ubuntu went with Unity and these issues are being ignored because developers preferred to focus on the new hotness, I’d say I have a reason to feel nervous. The burnt child is often skittish about fire. Couldn’t tell you why…
You want to accuse me of virtue signaling? Consider that all I’m asking is that the Traditional Desktop continue to work. That functionality remain functional. Hardly anything to call virtue signaling about that is there? All I’m asking is that papercuts get fixed before the new toys get added. Eat your vegetables before you have desert. Do your homework before watching cartoons.
Truthfully, the Mate Desktop as it is on Ubuntu is pretty much perfect except for some of these rough edges that keep cutting my hands while using them. I’m very impressed by how close the distro has come to perfection. When I moved to Ubuntu-Mate it was like coming home again.
I don’t mind the new layouts. I actually think they’re pretty cool. I love what they make possible. I just think that the Traditional Layout–the look that made us famous–should come first. Why wouldn’t you want to leave the dance with the one you brung in the first place?
You say ‘What ever happened to choice is good?’ and I say I’m just trying to make sure there will be a choice down the road.