I've just install mate and I must say it is great. It is great to see again the good old user interface. Much better then Unity, Gnome3 seems to be lighter then cinnamon I used before it.
-- Ori Idan On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>wrote: > I am using Unity 5.14 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 and I am *very* pleased. > > Very rare crashes, easily solve with 'unity -- replace'. Most of them > happen when I switch between displays (Monitor via DVI and TV via HDMI). > > It took me about a week to get used to it, but now I feel it will be hard > for me to switch to another Desktop Manager... > > Amichai. > > > 2013/11/15 Rami Rosen <rosenr...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> I was also disappointed with Gnome 3 on recent Fedora releases. I tried >> using Gnome classic mode but still there were issues. Most disturbing was >> with the JEdit editor. I also tried using MATE, but I still had issues with >> the JEdit editor. So after years of using Gnome on various Fedora >> releases, I switched several months ago to KDE, after years of using Gnome >> 3. The issues with JEdit are solved with KDE. >> >> Note: >> 1) it seems to me that launching an application in KDE (from the >> application menu or from a desktop shortcut) is really slower than with >> Gnome. However I did not tried to delved into it - maybe there are some KDE >> plugins which can be disabled, or other tweaks. >> >> 2) The issues I had with JEdit might be due to that I am not using the >> latest release of JEdit (from my own/legacy reasons). I do not want to >> upgrade from my own reasons, which I can describe if anyone is interested >> to hear. >> >> Rami Rosen >> http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: >> >>> After reading Ilan Shavit's blog article about his disappointment from >>> Gnome 3 (http://ilsh.info/archives/3084), I found about the Gnome 2 fork >>> MATE (http://mate-desktop.org/). >>> >>> Before installing MATE on my Debian Wheezy system, I would like to know >>> other people's experience with it. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> --- Omer >>> >>> >>> -- >>> We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children >>> more than they hate us. >>> Golda Meir (Israeli Prime Minister between 1969-1974) >>> My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ >>> >>> My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. >>> They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which >>> I may be affiliated in any way. >>> WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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