Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy
Please post on the list, if you prefer so.
Wait for Mate 1.2.3 because there is a bug with a library that blocks
partially the upgrades on Wheezy, at the moment I am on Wheezy with
Mate 1.2.0 and I've read that it the bug is fixed on 1.2.3 version.
After that it should be smooth and easy. Anyway everything is working
OK on my system apart from the upgrades.
http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian
2012/4/30 James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
> Sorry for the delay, I was OP on this but was away for the weekend.
>
> I run LXDE and XFCE on my other linux machines, but whilst good they seem to
> lack the polish of Gnome 2. I also tried KDE4 but seemed to run very slowly
> on my Core2duo. I'd used gnome for about nine years and did all of my
> research using it, so I'm very disappointed with what I've heard about gnome
> 3. It doesn't even seem like Gnome 3 has been finished yet to release
> standards from what I have read.
>
> I seems like Mate is the best option, so if anyone knows a good guide for
> getting this set up on Wheezy, I'd be grateful.
>
> Also does anyone know anything about cinnamon on Debian?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
> On 28/04/12 19:47, Ellwood Blues wrote:
>>>
>>> So thanks but no, I will be be loyal to GNOME until they decide to take a
>>> radical path I can't deal with (like it happened when I moved from KDE 3
>>> to GNOME 2 because of the poor state of KDE 4.0).
>>
>>
>>
>> So you will be loyal but Gnome won't?
>>
>> I think that that mentality will kill linux.
>>
>> As Jono Bacon said recently «Canonical used to be a project but now is
>> a product.»
>>
>> I am sorry but I prefer on linux the project mentality. Products are
>> Windows and Apple and Android and Unity, etc.
>>
>> Happy that Debian is still there.
>>
>>
>
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