MATE desktop

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.08.2013 20:00, schrieb Les Howell:
> My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop.  She did like GNOME2, so I have
> found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2.  I have looked at the
> software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE.
> What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user?  Will the
> GNOME3 version of Evolution, Firefox, etc all run?  

a application has *nothing* to do with the desktop
it needs the runtime libraries which may be a lot and that's all

what is the "GNOME3 version" of firefox?
it runs here on KDE and is *clearly* using GTK2 at all

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ lsof | grep firefox | grep gtk
firefox    5513           harry  mem       REG                9,1       1399424     525673
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so
firefox    5513           harry  mem       REG                9,1       4774392    1058659
/usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.19
firefox    5513           harry  mem       REG                9,1         58667     789905
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo
firefox    5513 23600     harry  mem       REG                9,1       1399424     525673
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so
firefox    5513 23600     harry  mem       REG                9,1       4774392    1058659
/usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.19
firefox    5513 23600     harry  mem       REG                9,1         58667     789905
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo

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