> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-mint-mate.html
>
> Last paragraph:
>
> "And this is exactly the one chance MATE has to make it big or become a
> collector's item, like Trinity."
>
> The author's remark is in reference to his own review some time ago:
>
> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/trinity-kde.html
>
> Darrell

While interesting, remember that the author is primarily a Gnome 2 user,
and that KDE3 and Gnome 2 users never really got along very well. ;-) 
KDE4 has more in common with Gnome 2 than TDE does.

Simply, he is looking for a different feature set that he found in MATE.

Tim