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Re: Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

guy — Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:43 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:43 pm

FranBlakes wrote:

Any news on the MATE project?

It's in Mint 12 but still a bit rough round the edges. Mint recommend default is a gnome-2-ified gnome 3 layer whose name/acronym I can't remember: gsoh or something

Re: Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

FranBlakes — Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:46 pm

Author: FranBlakes

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:46 pm

Any news on the MATE project?

Re: Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

heiowge — Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:12 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:12 am

I hear Mint 12 will offer MATE as an option...

Re: Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

M-Saunders — Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:25 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:25 am

There's something called the "MATE" project (can't find a proper site for it at the mo) which aims to continue the Gnome 2.x codebase.

M

Re: Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

johnhudson — Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:34 pm

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:34 pm

For how long? Is there a community of developers willing to spend time on it? Interestingly, KDE3 is still being maintained even though I don't think there is a distro that ships with it - so that may be an option for Gnome 2.

Please tell Linus Gnome 2 is still around

tpgbz4z — Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:23 pm

Author: tpgbz4z

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:23 pm

Sorry if I'm late on this and you've already talked about it.

I'm surprised to read (LXF150 November 2011 page 12 Newsbytes) that Linus Torvalds ditched Gnome 3 for Xfce then complained that Xfce is still a step down from Gnome 2.

I use Gnome 2.30.2 on Debian 6. Would someone please tell him it's still available?

Thank you.