* On 2012 14 Nov 17:47 -0600, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2012 22:23:44 Worrier Poet wrote: > > I understand > > that there's a branch of Gnome 2 still under development, but not by the > > Gnome project people. > > Mate. And I understood that many of the developers had simply jumped ship. > There is also Cinnamon, but I haven't quite gathered what exactly that is.
I happened to try Linux Mint 14-RC last night with the Cinnamon desktop. The best way for me to describe Cinnamon is that it is a GNOME2 workspace shell built from GNOME3 components. Much of it is quite familiar and I was able to figure out work spaces and such in a few minutes (the key is Ctl-Alt-Up and then adding the workspaces extension to the panel and configuring keyboard shortcuts). I did not try the MATE version. So far it seems that only Linux Mint is the distribution with a choice of these two projects (I've not looked extensively at other distros). Cinnamon desktop is a Linux Mint project as I understand it. Hopefully it will find its way into Debian as a GS3 alternative after Wheezey is released. Over time I suspect it will gain a following. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121115004522.gu4...@n0nb.us
