Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

[ihrsetrdr]

I for one am saddened by the direction that the Gnome devs have gone- Gnome3 just bothers me, and so XFCE seemed to be my next choice for desktop. Or, I might have had to abandon Debian and perhaps go with Centos or RHEL in order to continue using Gnome2.

There may be a viable fork in the works, see the link below:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162

[David]

I hope we see some nice GNOME2 forks - GNOME3 isn't anywhere near ready yet. It needs the option of a 'GNOME2 mode' like Win8 has a Win7-like mode ...

[ihrsetrdr]

Alot of people are not happy with the gnome shell, and unity(Ubuntu users); they're havin' a bit of harsh words over the whole thing(see link) (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwMjY).

There is a survey whereby Gnome users can register their viewpoints on the matter:

2011 GNOME Survey (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=gnome_survey)

I'm leaving some thoughts with them in just a moment.

[Stratus_ss]

Thanks for the link I will also fill it out

[ihrsetrdr]

I setup FC-16 beta on my old A8N5X, discovered that using gnome-tweak tool (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeTweakTool) enables the user to fashion Gnome to a more traditional mode. I find this approach to be quite satisfactory; maybe in the future may try-out a gnome2 fork, if/when one becomes more mature.

[Shell]

I've been using XFCE and LXDE for a while now, I don't really see any point in the hugeness of KDE/GNOME.

[ihrsetrdr]

I've been using XFCE and LXDE for a while now, I don't really see any point in the hugeness of KDE/GNOME.

There is no "point", just a personal preference. As for hugeness, on a modern computer there is no real necessity to be concerned over marginal resource usage differences in DEs.

[ihrsetrdr]

Here's an interesting and possible useful link for those committed to hanging on to
gnome 2's familiar functionality & usefulness:

http://k3rnel.net/2011/06/15/bluebubble-faq/

[Nechen]

I prefer KDE for pretty-ness. LXDE for anything else.

GNOME can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, they just need a big APPLE logo at the bootscreen since they're clearly targetting functionally <snip> consumers.

[ihrsetrdr]

I prefer KDE for pretty-ness. LXDE for anything else.

GNOME can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, they just need a big APPLE logo at the bootscreen since they're clearly targetting functionally <snip> consumers.

Now don't hold back, tell us how you really feel. I'm guessing you must be:

1. talking about Gnome 3

2. have a clear prejudice and deep rooted disrespect for Mac users.

-just to put things in perspective, fully 100% of my computer repair clientele are Windows users, zero percent of the Mac users I know are having any problems at all.

Of course, the Linux users I know just take care of their own machines.

[ihrsetrdr]

Marked [solved], see this thread (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7185140#post7185140)