Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,
The issue I with JEdit I had  is probably not related to the fact it is
Java based application.
What I had is that when pressing ctrl-f for search in JEdit , which is a
very frequent operation, the JEdit search box was opened, but the focus was
not on the search box of the search dialog. So I had to manually go with
the mouse there and click to obtain the focus.
This issue did not occur on previous Fedora distros.
The problem was persistent over several Fedora machines with Gnomer3.

Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen#!home/mainPage






On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:17 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>wrote:

> I am puzzled how is a Java based program influenced in the slightest
> bit by what DE you're using....?
>
> 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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