gnome shell versus mate

[Christopher Chaltain]

Are you sure you can't add your own desktop items? I don't recall how I 
did it, but I have a few desktop icons that I know I created myself in 
Gnome 3.

I also don't have any problem removing a drive. I just find the icon for 
the drive on the desktop, hit the applications key and then arrow down 
to eject.

On 01/04/16 08:41, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> Being objective is a little difficult, since I've switched back to mate,
> but i'll give it a shot. Hear goes.
> Gnome is great if you don't want to have a customized panel with
> different applets on it. The gnome panel is set and can't be changed
> easily. It requires an extension or gsettings keys to do so.
>
> As a resultt, once you learn where everything is it won't ever change.
> This is an advantage if you just want to run your apps and not have to
> go looking for stuff on the panel. On the other hand, gnome has taken
> out a lot of functionality that mate, being a fork of gnome 2 before all
> this stuff was removed, has. In gnome, you can't select a different
> sound theme than the default except by using gsettings.
>
> You can't create your own desktop icons, and removing a drive through
> the gui is buried in nautilus. Whether you care about this stuff mostly
> depends on what you do with your computer. Mate is much lighter on
> resources, which won't matter unless you have a computer that gnome
> doesn't run well on. On the other hand, mate's panels can be very odd
> with orca, sometimes getting stuck and requiring a reset of orca or the
> panel to fix things.
>
> Mate is a lot more configurable, but has the disadvantage of not being
> able to run apps as root accessibly. At least for now. This is being
> worked on right now and should be fixed shortly. Mate has a nice menu
> system, with apps organized into categories. Sound and video, office,
> etc. You can't search for apps like you can in gnome, to find them you
> have to use the menus or add them to the desktop.
>
> You can of course create keyboard shortcuts to launch them and so on. I
> can't tell you which is better because each one is preferred by
> different people. But mate tends to be better on computers that don't
> have a lot of power or memory. Gnome has more desktop effects and can
> search, but has a lot of the more advanced functionality removed. It's
> really up to you, in the end.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
>
> Daniel Crone wrote:
>> Hello.  I am curious about the advantages of gnome shell over mate, or vice versa.
>> What do you think?
>
>

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Christopher (CJ)
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