Hi, Aere:
> There is a new Ubuntu variant, called "ubuntuMATE", which has a desktop > based on Gnome 2. > > In reading about it, I got the impression (which may not be correct) that > they are maintaining Gnome 2 (and its libraries). > > If that is actually the case, then gtk2 may be available for the > foreseeable future. > Aere, MATE is forking everything to GTK3. It's not the old Gnome desktop, it's a new environment porting previous Gnome version to use GTK3 apps and libs. The process is not finished yet, so you may find both GTK2 and GTK3 libs working. > > I have experimented with ubuntuMATE. It is reliable (in the areas I > test), and I like it. You can put applets in the panel (as before), and > you can customize the colors as well. It runs well (though not as well as > Lubuntu) on older, slower machines. > About the applets, you have only available those ported by the MATE team. You cannot use Gnome standard applets. > > It is (to me) the new release of Ubuntu I was looking forward to, when > they unexpectedly substituted the Unity desktop. > > I haven't tried to install it yet on a machine with only 512 meg of RAM. > I suspect it would fail, seeing how much swap space it used during an > install. And yes, it's lightweight. More than I expected. It's memory footprint may be lighter than XFCE once the whole desktop loaded. But I insist, it's not Gnome, nothing to do. But it's beautiful :)
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