[GTALUG] GUI for Ubuntu 16.04

[Bob Jonkman]

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I like the Gnome2 UI as well. I'm currently using the MATE spin of
Ubuntu 16.04: https://ubuntu-mate.org/

Prior to the existence of Ubuntu-MATE I had successfully loaded the
package mate-desktop-environment (and mate-desktop-environment-extras)
directly from http://mate-desktop.com/ , most of which settings have
successfully transferred over to Ubuntu-MATE (exceptions are some
gnome-panel applets, but re-adding those applets fixed that). So there
is a high degree of compatibility between Ubuntu-MATE and the release
from the MATE Desktop folks.

- --Bob.


On 2016-08-03 01:19 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 16-08-03 01:12 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
>> I have been running 14.04 and have no reason to upgrade.
> [snip]
>> I prefer the tradition Gnome interface with a menu bar at the
>> top.
> [snip]
>> So I am turning here and hope someone can me find out if/how I
>> can use the traditional menu bar.
> 
> I left Ubuntu when they came out with Unity. I went to Linux Mint
> with the MATE desktop. MATE is based on Gnome 2. MATE allows me to
> keep the Gnome 2 look on my desktop that I've been using for many
> years.
> 
> You could check to see how you would go about using MATE on
> Ubuntu. Since it works in Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, you
> should be able to use it.
> 

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