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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 17, 2012 11:02 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by paulj
Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

All the applets I use I could just choose and add just fine. It seems to use the (normal ?) gnome-panel.

Just one thing: ALT-right-mouse-button was needed to get the menu instead of just right-mouse-button.

But would that be a reason to keep a port of GNOME2 going in Mint and Fedora instead of keeping GNOME3-fallback working if the changed aren't accepted into the GNOME-project ?


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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 17, 2012 13:41 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Indeed, and MATE is that fork: http://mate-desktop.org/ - packages available for a number of distros, including a Fedora repo. Should be in the stock Fedora 18 repos too, when that releases.

Bit sad that the GNOME developers didn't care to make it possible to parallel install GNOME3 with GNOME2, without doing a lot of work on renaming stuff. But hey.

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