On 28/08, [email protected] wrote: > i am messing with the De and i cant decide. what are the advantge of mate? i > love Kde but i wanted to see why my friends are using Mate? i probably > install mate and use it for a week but i am very confuse why my friend like > so much. Hello! Before I begin with the difference between DEs could I recommend the FLOSS program LanguageTool. It's a plugin for Libreoffice, Firefox/forks, Emacs, and the rest which helps with English grammar and spelling. I know how hard it's to get that down since I'm a non-native speaker myself and they really helped!
Anyways let me get to the actual point of your email. Let me start with the history of DEs in the GNU/Linux scene. From the beginning there were two big projects for desktops for X.org. GNOME was (and still is!) part of the GNU project and the third project of its kind and you had KDE. KDE was a German project which was based on the, at the time, non-free QT toolkit. GNOME adopted GTK (originally from GIMP) and the GNU/Linux community divided between the two and started a bloody war which still rages on today. Nowadays GNOME is seen, at least by me, as extendable and beautiful out of the box while KDE is seen as heavy, ugly out of the box but highly configurable. Anyways after GNOME released version 3 people got quite mad because the entire look changed. So some people who really liked version two decided to fork it and mantain it. This project got called MATE. In comparison to KDE/GNOME it's lighter weight but also has less developers. So if you want cutting edge stuff like Wayland support MATE is not the desktop.. It is more traditional then GNOME 3 but looks a bit less pretty out of the box. It's prettier out of the box but less configurable then KDE. Also do note I was talking about KDE4 here and not Plasma which actually quite pretty but not totally stable yet. Here is a Linux Action Show episode about MATE: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/75242/meet-mates-mastermind-las-347/ I hope I was in anyway useful. -- Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. -- H.R. Haldeman
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