On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:58:00AM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > So, to get to the question, which version of MATE are folks using?
I use Mate version 1.16 from the EPEL repository. Mate is NOT officially supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the clone that I use, Scientific Linux. Red Hat pushes Gnome 3 pretty strongly, which is more like a video game than a work environment, IMHO. Mate seems incomplete, but is a better approximation of the Gnome 2 work environment than anything else. Gnome 2 is no longer supportable, since the underlying GTK libraries and distros have evolved without backwards compatibility. No clue about which (if any?) distros feature Mate as their primary desktop environment. I worry about Mate's long term support; if the principal contributors find "real jobs" someday, I may be S.O.L. I imagine that's how Gnome 3 wandered off into the weeds. I send money to the Mate project sometimes. I hope that encourages persistence. If I had ten million dollars, I would hire Miguel de Icaza to lead a Gnome palace revolution. Then he would hire a team to make Mate into a bulletproof Gnome 4, while making Gnome 3 into the new Microsoft desktop, sinking both. Keith P.S. If I had ten million dollars, I would need a hundred million dollars to do all the great projects I can imagine doing with ten million dollars. Sigh. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug