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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. Way to go. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too many people have problems with GNOME 3. Good to have a choice.

  2. Splendid decision by blind+biker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was disheartened with the shipwreck that Gnome 3 decided to become, so MATE was a very positive development. And while I'm not a Fedora user (just not my cup of tea), it's a very popular distro, and seeing them adopt MATE added a huge momentum to the project (a bit like when IBM adopted Java - it boosted it enormously).

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  3. Re:Kind of sems like a step backwards. by Ignacio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should work on getting the kinks out instead of trying to go back in time or trying to be a crappy Mint wannabe with no codecs.

    GNOME 3 doesn't have "kinks", it has major usability regressions. They can't be "gotten out", they must be destroyed.

    New users want something cool and flashy not something that looks like a clone of Windows from years past.

    Only if you want all your new users to be teenage kids.