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Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE

Posted by Soulskill on from the locking-it-down dept.

dsinc writes "It's not just Mint: Fedora will also feature MATE in their upcoming release (Fedora 18). According to Fedora's Dan Mashal, 'many users have expressed interest in this feature since Fedora 15 in which Fedora was switched from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3.'" This follows shortly after news that MATE 1.4 has been released. New features includes file sharing over bluetooth, updated backends for mate-keyring and libmatekeyring, new themes for the notification daemon, and improvements to the Caja file manager. MATE is being included in Sabayon as well.

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  1. But wait... by wordsnyc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seadog 19 will feature Matey, the DE that comes with a talking parrot (but doesn't support 3D).

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  2. And a round of slow clapping began.... by Picass0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you for the outbreak of common sense from the Fedora team. I've been using KDE since Gnome 3 arrived.

  3. Re:Way to go. by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    But choice == fragmentation! Panic now, before its too late!

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  4. Re:We're all missing the point by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny
    By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again.And Gnome 4 will replace it with new, improved bugs and an incomprehensible UI

    FTFY

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