[ubuntu-tn] Have you met the MATE ?

[hatem ounis]

Salam,

In my quest to retrieve the good old GNOME 2, I met a mate, or should I say
the MATE.

Before telling you more about it, here is an introduction.

As part of my baby duck syndrome I hate GNOME 3 and Unity, I feel like
being an idiot using such user interfaces.
By trying to be simple to use, I find they failed to keep user informed on
what is cooking into his machine. So by inference they failed to make user
think, deduce and learn more.
My deduction is that a new era of idiot computer users has begun, and it
will be a hard task to make them think it's bad for their mind, as it was
and still the case for another OS users.

Let's focus on the MATE <https://github.com/mate-desktop>.

To make a long story short, it's a fork of GNOME 2, it's not yet stable, so
please test it then report bugs so we can have a stable desktop environment
that doesn't suck.
I personally had a huge bug, making nautilus crash every few seconds.

Here<http://shuffleos.com/3896/how-to-install-gnome-2-fork-mate-desktop-for-linux-mint-12-in-ubuntu-11-10>is
a way to install it on Ubuntu 11.10, but since it's not stable yet,
test
it at your own risk.

-- 
Hatem Ounis.

"Command line is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its
friends are"
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