Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE

[Suraj-Sun]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop

[mgurlitz]

I don't know if "feature" is the right word when all this means is you can choose to install it. GNOME3 is still the default DE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList)

[rwmj]

Cinnamon has just made it into Fedora as well. For those not following, Cinnamon is a "traditional" (ie. GNOME 2- / Windows 95- / NextStep-like) desktop based on GNOME 3's and Gtk3's underlying technologies.

[adamtaylor → rwmj]

Could you provide a link like the one for MATE in Fedora?

[ciupicri → adamtaylor]

I couldn't find a feature page, but here's the packaging review request for Cinnamon: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252

P.S. Comment 146 mentions it as a possible feature.

[adamtaylor → ciupicri]

That comment thread, esp. comment 148, seems to imply that Cinnamon will _not_ be part of Fedora 18. At least as I read it.

[steelhive → adamtaylor]

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

[adamtaylor → steelhive]

I meant a link saying that Cinnamon will be included in Fedora 18.

[rwmj → adamtaylor]

Cinnamon has been added to Fedora, see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon

[ivarkotnik]

This is great! I like more too choose from!

Currently XFCE is my desktop environment of choice, but if Mate is adaptable to my needs I might switch.

[RobAley]

"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now."

Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.

[pavanky → RobAley]

> one of the most popular Linux distros out right now

stop nitpicking please.

[RobAley → pavanky]

I wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave).

And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.

[Symmetry → pavanky]

Not really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.

[giis]

thats a good news for long time fedora users. I'm using Fedora since FC-2. After Gnome-3,my machine became unusable. I don't want to switch to ubuntu :P Last month I filed a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 for it too. Glad to hear this change.

[Nux]

Good news!