Default applications review for 22.10 / 23.04 and beyond

GNOME Calculator vs Mate-Calc

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Mate-Calc was forked from GNOME Calculator in the early days of GNOME 3. It is maintained by the Mate Desktop team - and its a core-app for them. The issue tracker is well managed and the Debian Mate Team quickly packages their stuff.

It doesn’t install that many mate dependencies - basically translation stuff.

Mate Calc does NOT play nice with Pocillo - however with a bit of tweaking (in git master of the pocillo-gtk-theme repo) the calculator looks stylish in light styling and dark styling. Plays nice with Qogir and Arc theme. Tried WhiteSur as well and looks ok. Materia does not work that nicely though.

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