Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

[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 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 <w1 at 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
>
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