MATE 1.8 Is Looking To Come To Fedora 20

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67341

    MATE 1.8 Is Looking To Come To Fedora 20

    Phoronix: MATE 1.8 Is Looking To Come To Fedora 20

    Besides GNOME 3.12 being worked on for Fedora 20, it looks like MATE 1.8 will also end up landing as a stable release update...

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  • diebels
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2010
    • 4

    #2
    Why not use gnome-flashback

    Why not use gnome-flashback? It seems to work better than ever in the latest iteration. Less buggy than Mate.

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    • entropy
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2008
      • 1131

      #3
      Can anybody tell, how well Mate works on high pixel-densities?

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      • scottishduck
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2011
        • 498

        #4
        How old is the underlying GTK2 that MATE relies on?

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        • PiotrDrag
          Junior Member
          • Sep 2013
          • 17

          #5
          Originally posted by scottishduck View Post
          How old is the underlying GTK2 that MATE relies on?
          In Fedora 20 and Rawhide it uses GTK+ 2.24.22, released last autumn. There is still some maintenance activity in the gtk-2-24 git branch, so you might expect new minor releases in the future.

          Originally posted by entropy View Post
          Can anybody tell, how well Mate works on high pixel-densities?
          I wouldn't expect any support before MATE is ported to GTK+ 3. I might be wrong though, as I don't follow MATE development beside what Michael covers here.

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          • PiotrDrag
            Junior Member
            • Sep 2013
            • 17

            #6
            Originally posted by scottishduck View Post
            How old is the underlying GTK2 that MATE relies on?
            In Fedora 20 and Rawhide it uses GTK+ 2.24.22, released last autumn. There is still some maintenance activity in the gtk-2-24 git branch, so you might expect new minor releases in the future.

            Originally posted by scottishduck View Post
            How old is the underlying GTK2 that MATE relies on?
            I wouldn't expect any support before MATE is ported to GTK+ 3. I might be wrong though, as I don't follow MATE development beside what Michael covers here.

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            • linuxjacques
              Phoronix Member
              • Oct 2008
              • 104

              #7
              I'm so happy they are still developing MATE.

              I've tried gnome shell, "classic", and cinnamon, and MATE by far works best for me.

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              • JX8p
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2013
                • 125

                #8
                Originally posted by diebels View Post
                Why not use gnome-flashback? It seems to work better than ever in the latest iteration. Less buggy than Mate.
                It seems far buggier to me (GNOME-Panel crashes regularly), it's GTK3 only, it's much bigger in size.

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                • marcin
                  Junior Member
                  • Mar 2014
                  • 1

                  #9
                  After struggling with Gnome3 for a few months, trying KDE and LXDE I migrated to XFCE a year or two ago. Yesterday I've installed MATE. It feels so much better. XFCE is also good, but I was missing some features. Looking forward to have the latest MATE version in Fedora.

                  I've been using Linux on desktop for more than 10 years. It's good that after Unity/Gnome3 craziness almost all distros include decent DE again.

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