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Is Linux just a hobby?
Tuxman:
Source? -Josh (June 02, 2012, 10:24 AM)
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services.msc.
Source? -Josh (June 02, 2012, 10:24 AM)
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services.msc.
Source? -Josh (June 02, 2012, 10:24 AM)
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Subjective impression.
mahesh2k:
MATE is not a WM or DE though. That's what most techies may underrate.
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MATE is a window manager based on gnome 2 source code. It is going to be ported on GTK3+ soon. I am tracking mate changes on github and it is DE written over gnome 2. It was forked because many old gnome 2 users wanted menu based panel navigation instead of gnome3.
Anyway, this thread was more of a drivel rather than problem solving or positive look towards linux, so I am not surprised that many other linux users on DC are ignoring it. If OP was that interested in linux he could have thought about fixing issues rather than taking potshots. Some of the issues mentioned here are usually discussed on linux forums and can be easily tackled but there seems to be no interest on that part. So this is kinda derailed discussion.
Tuxman:
MATE is a window manager based on gnome 2 source code.
-mahesh2k (June 02, 2012, 10:32 AM)
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Gnome 2 is not a window manager.
mahesh2k:
So We should call it Shell instead of DE/WM?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME
Tuxman:
DE is fine. A desktop environment contains the "desktop" and some applications AFAIK, like KDE, so Gnome 2 is a DE too (Evolution etc.).
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