Hello, On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:33:53 +0200 Rainer Traut <tr.ml@xxxxxx> wrote: > Am 25.09.19 um 08:18 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic: > > All I need for work that feeds me is one good work environment and that > > is MATE. All tray icons are visible so I can see if message or mail > > comes without need to move more then eyeball. And stablity of CentOS > > makes it best option even though versions of apps are not latest and > > greatest, it is enough they do the job needed. > > Exactly :) > Could not explain better. I'm in a total agreement too. Mate (or xfce) on top of CentOS brings me a desktop I can work in. Work means: as a dev station at work - amongst other things because it's close to the RHEL 8 system, which is one of the reference systems we have in our customers community. Works means also: use it as a dev and workstation at home. Long time ago I was using xfce, because it was behaving almost like gnome2 and was able to get gnome applets in its tray (that was a major one), I think it has lost this ability, at least last time I tried it, this was not possible. If Mate will not be available for CentOS 8, I will consider this: - building Mate from the sources myself (yeah, w/ all deps) - xfce or icewm from repositories. For now, I'm postponing my CentOS 8 use until: 1) the live system is available, because I need it to see how it boots and installs on the target systems I have (where CentOS 7 was a total failure - only Ubuntu/Deb were OK), 2) we know if Mate is available or definitely not available from third-party repositories. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/
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