Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy
- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy
- From: Stephen Allen <marathon.durandal@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:35:39 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20120510053539.GA1384@thinkpad.gateway.2wire.net>
- In-reply-to: <CAGZeNoeAyx14urntdGdu9QWpGQqu_pP=pHaVO7PBAtF1VtWF=g@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <CAGZeNodvo8JLe7zof=jFjo3zbMd6b-Jgdn6OArErFMsfMVXyXA@mail.gmail.com> <4f9ae2f6.c153b40a.5db1.ffff89e9SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <CAGZeNoeAyx14urntdGdu9QWpGQqu_pP=pHaVO7PBAtF1VtWF=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:32:03PM +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote:
> 2012/4/27 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>:
> > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote:
> >> http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian
> >
> > No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor
> > of GNOME2.
> >
>
>
> I am deciding now which one is may favourite: Xfce or Mate, right now
> I am on Mate and I love it. I am also interested on Jwm (pure Linux
> old school, without BS, light and fast as light and without BS ).
>
> As linus said «We need a Gnome 2 fork» and in my opinion the name of
> this fork is «Mate», we need Mate obviously.
There is Cinnamon done by the lead developer of Mint. It's probably more
mature than MATE. I've run Cinnamon before and it's nice. The benefit is
the classic look/behaviour of Gnome2 but using GTK3, so less buggy.
Reply to: