I personally thoroughly enjoy the well developed KDE desktop and feel none come close. willysr mate is nice I down loaded it built it.
I really like XFCE4 I think it a wonderful environment also.

You have to realize all software has hardware limits. The term bloat you really need to keep up with what Slackware devel team has been able to
do with KDE4. Super fast. I myself use FVWM another machine that has older hardware and less ram and I am very happy with it also.

This is a straight question to willysr . Do you think Mate is stable enough for Slackware. I see MLED is using it. and I am glad that fits his build.

If yes then ok If no you tell us.

MATE is stable enough for Slackware, but my opinion still the same.
I prefer to keep it outside of Slackware main tree

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Agreed. I think MATE would work well on Slackware, but, it would mean an increased work load for the Slackware team. I fully support decisions made by our Slackware team.

I think it's definitely worthy of consideration - especially to fans of Gnome 2 desktops (like myself). I do like how lean and unobtrusive it is.

I like the idea of MATE being included in slackware, but unfortunately due to DVD disc size limitations, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon, unless they cut content to fit MATE in?

I agree with you there. But I am sure down the road there will be another DVD just like the cdrom set.
seems the cdrom dvd-rom community has hit a road block but we just double up ~

I'm a fellow Xfce user under Slackware 14.1.

IMHO, I find the Slackware's Xfce experience more "complete" with what's provided under the /xfce dir than what Debian actually provides with their Xfce "install task".

As someone else already stated, most of the remaining Xfce "goodies" are available in SBo.

I'm considering switching to Mate mainly because of the increasing number of GTK3-based programs.

However, I might give the Xfce team some help in their GTK3 migration.

I'm motivated by the fact that Xfce (and probably Mate too) is a sane DE that should keep going.

Of course the above statements are only from my humble opinion.