A Look at Fedora 18

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 16 January 2013, Gordon Messmer sent:
> More or less. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.
> 
> Fedora also includes Cinnamon, now, which is an alternate shell based
> on GNOME 3, but with a more traditional panel and menu interface.

I'm inclined not to agree with that.  If it were "more traditional
Gnome" it'd look like the old Gnome desktop, not like a copy of the
Windows desktop, with it's appalling bottom-up start menu (as all the
screenshots of Cinnamon depict, that I can find).

Going by screenshots, Mate looks more "traditional."  And, I think it's
what I'm using on Fedora 17.  I say "think," in that I've tried a few
different things with Gnome on Fedora and Ubuntu, to get traditional
Gnome desktop, again, and I can't remember which approach I did on which
installation.  I don't know if I'm "using it" or just that bits of it
are installed.  There's no desktop chooser (in the GDM logon screen) on
Fedora to let me quickly see what desktop I'm using.

[tim at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa \*mate\*
mate-conf-1.4.0-21.fc17.x86_64
mate-corba-1.4.0-9.fc17.x86_64
mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc17.x86_64
mate-desktop-libs-1.5.5-1.fc17.x86_64

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 17 22:16:35 UTC 2012 x86_64

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