Question about Ubuntu 12 desktop

[Bob Jonkman]

I've been using the Mate Desktop on Ubuntu for the last few months.  It
claims to be "a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using
traditional computing desktop metaphor."  I believe it's a fork of
Gnome2. I'm finally getting things done, without the computing
environment getting in my way.

http://mate-desktop.org/

Instructions for installing with a package manager are at

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download


"Mate" is not "Cinnamon", although both seem to have been developed with
the Mint distro in mind.  I've used Cinnamon too, but it does not seem
to be as well developed as Mate (eg. fewer panel applets, faulty panel
applets). I also went through a brief spell of Gnome3 - but too many new
things to remember while trying to do work. And, obviously, I've tried
Unity, but I just can't get used to it.

--Bob.


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On 12-09-10 11:22 PM, John Moniz wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 10:40 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 12-09-10 06:53 PM, John Moniz wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> How to return to classic Gnome in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/netcooltips/entry/how_to_return_to_classic_gnome_in_ubuntu_12_04_precise12?lang=en
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Thanks for the link. The question is very timely also, Mel just beat
>>> me to it.
>>> 
>>> I have installed 10.04 LTS for a few friends and family, none of
>>>  whom seem to be interested in Unity. Has anyone tried this 
>>> "fix"? Is there any loss in functionality to be concerned about? 
>>> I did see something about installing gnome shell from the gnome 
>>> team repository (ppa: gnome3-team/gnome3) instead of using the 
>>> default Ubuntu repository gnome package (too old apparently?).
>>> 
>> I have been using it since installing 12.04. I made sure that I 
>> could use classic Gnome before I did the upgrade to 12.04.
>> 
>> I have not been able to get icons for apps on the top bar, but that
>> is not very important, and I have not tried to hard to figure it
>> out.
> 
> Having app icons on the top bar is kind of important for my 
> mother-in-law, it's the only way she remembers how to start a 
> program. I'll have to see if I can figure it out.
> 

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