Re: Our long nightmare is over

[Sarah Harvey <worldwise001@gmail.com>]

Seems to be. Runs perfectly on arch, except for some duplicate entries
if you have gnome 3.

Too bad mdm (mate version of gdm) isn't maintained right now.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is this compared to Gnome 2? Pretty similar?
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:21 PM, One30nav <one30nav@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> I think the other distros will catch on -- Mint is already there. Lord
>> knows I gave
>> Gnome 3 a chance...I used it for a week, but just couldn't get past the
>> interface issues.
>> Frankly, it makes sense now that Fedora's backing MATE. Red Hat would
>> never be able
>> to deploy Gnome 3 on an enterprise-level scale; it's just too
>> non-intuitive and Unity is too
>> tablet-ish. Thank you, Desktop Gods!
>>
>> Cheers, Al Lopez
>>
>> On 8/6/2012 5:09 PM, Noah Norris wrote:
>>
>> Now if ever distro can start using it ~
>>
>> Oh and hello everyone ;-)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got to try this!
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:50, One30nav <one30nav@charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> GREAT call on Fedora's part. Glad to see that MATE has significant
>>> backing now. Vr Al
>>>
>>> On 8/6/2012 12:02 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>>
>>> MATE is to GNOME what LibreOffice is to OpenOffice. It's the fork going
>>> forward. GNOME3 is a desktop like dBase2 had an interface. Blank and
>>> useless.
>>>
>>> MATE is GNOME2.x reborn, and it's available for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu,
>>> Mint, and ArchLinux at http://mate-desktop.org/install/. I just
>>> installed it to my Fedora 17 lapto and logged off/on.
>>>
>>> "Well. Hello Beautuful. Where have you been?"
>>>
>>> I'm happy.
>>>
>>> --Doc
>>>   Fairview Heights, IL
>>>
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