Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

[Ori Idan]

I've just install mate and I must say it is great.
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.

-- 
Ori Idan



On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:

> I am using Unity 5.14 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 and I am *very* pleased.
>
> Very rare crashes, easily solve with 'unity -- replace'. Most of them
> happen when I switch between displays (Monitor via DVI and TV via HDMI).
>
> 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...
>
> Amichai.
>
>
> 2013/11/15 Rami Rosen <rosenrami at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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