GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:02, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> In the short run you can use fallback mode, which has a very similar feel
> to gnome 2. In the long run, no one has started a gnome 2 fork

Oh  really? ;-)

A Fork Of GNOME 2: The Mate Desktop
Posted by Michael Larabel on August 17, 2011

A lot of people hate Canonical's Unity desktop, but a lot of people
also hate the current state of the GNOME 3.0 Shell too. For those that
are still fond of the GNOME 2.x environment, there is a fork of GNOME2
that's been little talked about up to this point. This fork is called
the Mate Desktop Environment.

The Mate Desktop Environment fork of GNOME2 was started by an Arch
Linux user back in June, but it hasn't yet gained too much traction
and is mostly just talked about on various forums around the web. It
also hasn't been picked up by any distribution repositories at this
point, but there is an AUR repository available for Arch Linux users.

The project overview is just: "MATE Desktop Environment, a
non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional
computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxMA

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