Bug 835306
Summary: | Request: Can the mate desktop be included in Fedora? | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | William Bader <williambader> |
Component: | gnome-desktop | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Dan Mashal <dan.mashal> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 17 | CC: | dan.mashal, rstrode, williambader |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Improvement |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2012-07-02 14:07:07 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
William Bader
2012-06-25 22:46:26 UTC
I am currently working on packaging Mate Desktop for Fedora but it hasn't been easy. There is a currently (unofficial) working version of Mate for fedora. 1) yum install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-1.fc17.noarch.rpm 2) yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop Please note this is NOT SUPPORTED CURRENTLY. If you want a truly working version of Gnome 2 use CentOS. However, I must say that it works, and it works great minus 1 error I receive on the login page. Please see the following URL for more information: http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=181 Closing as a "NOTABUG". Rest assured it's being looked into. Thanks for the reply. As I said, I installed mate in June (using the same command that you listed), and it has been working well except for a few minor errors. Mate fills a middle ground between LXDE and gnome3. The kernel in CentOS 6 is older than my laptop, and I'm not sure if it would have supported the hardware as well as Fedora 17. I considered Linux Mint also, but I need to stay relatively compatible with RHEL. Preaching to the choir, my friend. You may also find the following bug interesting: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252 Mate = Gnome 2 fork Cinnamon = Gnome 3 |