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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" modeGNOME Shell to support a "classic" modePosted Nov 24, 2012 22:13 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by paulj Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode
XFCE probably has a better future, as MATE is clearly based on legacy codebase. MATE upgraded to use GTK3 is called "Cinnamon".
XFCE, on the other hand, is not married to GTK2 - there are plans to migrate to GTK3 (it's actually slowly happening right now). And XFCE community is nice enough to minimize breaking UI changes.
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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 26, 2012 17:07 UTC (Mon) by tytso (subscriber, #9993) [Link]
From what I can tell the development community for MATE is quite small, certainly compared to XFCE's. I don't have as a good of a sense of the number of developers working on Cinnamon. Can anyone comment how the viability of the Gnome 2 forks in general as far as development community?
But in any case, that's why I've been recommending XFCE; that and the fact that it's available on all of the major distributions, which is not necessarily true for the Gnome 2 forks.
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