Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:34 AM, William <william at firstyear.id.au> wrote:

> >
> > o) AFAIK gnome3 is a supported desktop environment under FreeBSD (?).
> > Are there, besides KDE which I don't like for personal reasons, any
> > reasonable alternatives providing similar features like Gnome?
> >
>
> Try the port for MATE: its a fork of gnome 2. A few little bits need some
> tweaking but it works very well and is very stable.
>
> Sincerely
>
> William
>
>
I'll second this. It is worth noting that Gnome3  was a massive change to
Gnome2. It has been slightly less controversial than systemd, but only
slightly. I ran into in on a Linux VM and, after playing with it for a
pretty short time, ran as fast as I could.

It was a pretty simple transition. Some of your old friends have been
forked and renamed. Atril was evince, caja was nautilus, mate-terminal was
gnome-terminal, engrampa was file-roller, pluma was gedit, etc. The mate
home page lists most or all of these.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com