Et tu, Brute?

"He concluded, “If I had to summarize all of this, I’d simply tell you: We pick the best components for our releases, but if we don’t find what we’re looking for, we get involved. Gnome Shell isn’t what we want and we can’t change it to our liking. The one thing we want for #LinuxMint 13 is a desktop people can use and say ‘this is better than Gnome 2.’ It’s ambitious, we made the first steps with MGSE, but more work is needed and we won’t achieve this goal simply by writing extensions."