Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread Omer Zak
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, ---

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
HUJI uses it, personally I am fine with gnome3 so use that (90% of time is anyhow spent between terminal and browser so DEs aren't that interesting anymore) 2013/11/15 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: After reading Ilan Shavit's blog article about his disappointment from Gnome 3

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread Roman Ovseitsev
I've been using it for the last seven months on Fedora and did a few patches for it as well. Stability wise, there shouldn't be any significant problems. At the moment there is a small number of negligible bugs and one, long standing, major issue which may or may not affect you (

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
I'm using it for some time now on Fedora, each new release I try and use Gnome 3 - but I always go back to using MATE+Compiz (there is even a Fedora spin for that) I tried Xfce , as I like my desktop light and snappy, but I had problems with the keyboard. I really recommend it. On Fri, Nov 15,

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread Rami Rosen
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

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