Allegedly, on or about 16 January 2013, Gordon Messmer sent: > More or less. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. > > Fedora also includes Cinnamon, now, which is an alternate shell based > on GNOME 3, but with a more traditional panel and menu interface. I'm inclined not to agree with that. If it were "more traditional Gnome" it'd look like the old Gnome desktop, not like a copy of the Windows desktop, with it's appalling bottom-up start menu (as all the screenshots of Cinnamon depict, that I can find). Going by screenshots, Mate looks more "traditional." And, I think it's what I'm using on Fedora 17. I say "think," in that I've tried a few different things with Gnome on Fedora and Ubuntu, to get traditional Gnome desktop, again, and I can't remember which approach I did on which installation. I don't know if I'm "using it" or just that bits of it are installed. There's no desktop chooser (in the GDM logon screen) on Fedora to let me quickly see what desktop I'm using. [tim@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa \*mate\* mate-conf-1.4.0-21.fc17.x86_64 mate-corba-1.4.0-9.fc17.x86_64 mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc17.x86_64 mate-desktop-libs-1.5.5-1.fc17.x86_64 -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 17 22:16:35 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
