Bug#750798: mate-desktop-environment: please rename to mate{, -core, -extras}

[Adam Borowski]

Package: mate-desktop-environment
Version: 1.8.0+2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

Back in the day, this kind of metapackages used to be named
foo-desktop-environment.  This is no more, yet I see that for some reason
MATE uses this old scheme.

I'd say this is both inconsistent and confusing.  A package named
"mate-desktop" exists, yet it's not what one would expect.  On the other
hand, other desktop environments' metapackages are named:
  gnome
  lxde
  kde-standard
  xfce4  xfce4-goodies
As 3/4 of these use just their short name, I'd suggest using just "mate" as
well.

Meow!