Mate-Desktop-Environment

MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork.

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What it is

MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork.

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Observed mentions: 2011-11-03 17:46:10 UTC to 2012-01-24 18:59:10 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Oct 31	2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Nov 7	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 14	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 21	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 28	2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 5	2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 12	2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 19	2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Dec 26	2011-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2	2012-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 9	2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 16	2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 23	2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-30 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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BHSPitMonkey·Jan 24, 2012

Unfortunately, you (and I) are no longer GNOME's audience; We aren't who they're interested in targeting anymore. This would irk me less if GNOME 3 was a new/separate project instead of the future of GNOME 2, but c'est la vie. I've been trying to use XFCE instead, but in reality it falls short of GNOME 2 in so many ways it could never be a replacement. Fortunately, some people have forked GNOME 2 and plan on continuing its development under the name MATE, and they have Ubuntu/Debian repositories up. https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment

In Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu

nyellin·Dec 22, 2011

This (Cinnamon) is different than MATE, another GNOME fork that Mint was involved in. As far as I can tell, MATE extends GNOME 2 and Cinammon plans to build an alternative GNOME 3 shell. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=89411 https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment

In Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3

fmoralesc·Nov 3, 2011

No. There's a fork, though, called Mate (https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment).

In A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity