On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I still haven't learned how to tweak Gnome 3 so it looks > and operates like Gnome 2. > > I dislike video games, which most user desktops seem to > be evolving towards. I dislike icons replacing text; > I learned to read decades ago, and I can't grep icons. > > I use Mate (a gnome 2 clone with gnome 3 underneath) > for my large-screen SL7 systems; works OK. > > I've done my feeble best to compile Mate for CentOS 8; my > result is not completely broken, but not ready for use. > Some of the graphics fails. "Mate8" seems to leak memory. > > Mate character rendering (SL7 and C8) is fuzzy, just like > all gnome3 character rendering. No big deal on a 4K*X > pixel screen, quite a problem on a portable 1K*X pixel > screen. Xterm renders fine, as sharp as gnome2, but > xterm isn't as versatile as gnome2- and mate-terminal. > > Are there other Gnome2/Mate dinosaurs on this list? > > Perhaps we can combine efforts so the gaping holes in our > understanding don't completely overlap. If nothing else, > perhaps we can develop a list of setup steps to disinfect > gnome3 and make it smell less gamy. > > Then we can go back to our research, and stop distracting > others from their tweets, popup ads, and cute cat videos. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] There is a thread on the CentOS mailing list about Mate for el8 that you may want to take a look: lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-May/350284.html Akemi
