<div dir="ltr">I've just install mate and I must say it is great.<div>It is great to see again the good old user interface. Much better then Unity, Gnome3 seems to be lighter then cinnamon I used before it.</div><div><br>
</div><div>-- </div><div>Ori Idan</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il" target="_blank">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;border-right:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">I am using Unity 5.14 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 and I am *very* pleased.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Very rare crashes, easily solve with 'unity -- replace'. Most of them happen when I switch between displays (Monitor via DVI and TV via HDMI).</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It took me about a week to get used to it, but now I feel it will be hard for me to switch to another Desktop Manager...</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">
<br></div><div dir="ltr">Amichai.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">2013/11/15 Rami Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosenrami@gmail.com" target="_blank">rosenrami@gmail.com</a>></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I was also <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">disappointed with </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Gnome</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"> 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 </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">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. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"> The issues with </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">JEdit are solved with KDE. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Note: </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">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.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">2) The issues I had with JEdit might be due to that I am not using the latest release of </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">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.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></div><div>Rami Rosen</div><div><div><a href="http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen" target="_blank">http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br>
</span></div><div><br></div></div></font></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Omer Zak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il" target="_blank">w1@zak.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">After reading Ilan Shavit's blog article about his disappointment from<br>
Gnome 3 (<a href="http://ilsh.info/archives/3084" target="_blank">http://ilsh.info/archives/3084</a>), I found about the Gnome 2 fork<br>
MATE (<a href="http://mate-desktop.org/" target="_blank">http://mate-desktop.org/</a>).<br>
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Before installing MATE on my Debian Wheezy system, I would like to know<br>
other people's experience with it.<br>
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