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The Gnome-2-MATE Fork is available in version 1.4. The developers say mate as “traditional” desktop environment and want to address all of the Gnome users who are dissatisfied with Gnome third.

Mate 1.4 brings many improvements in addition to numerous bug fixes. Thus integrated the developer mate-keyring and library mate keyring completely and made the package available dropbox. With the extension for the file manager allows users to Caja provided by Dropbox cloud storage integrated into the desktop. Files can now communicate with other devices via Bluetooth.

The screensaver supports MATE conducted via GDM user change. If compositing is enabled in MATE Marco, users can use Alt + Tab to quickly switch between different windows. In MATE 1.4 the icon theme Faenza and the character table mate-character-map were added. The GNOME library libwnck (Window Navigator Construction Kit) has been forked to libmatewnck.
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Linux Mint developers have announced the release of Linux Mint Debian 201,204.

A choice of two versions – with MATE 1.2/Cinnamon 1.4 or with Xfce 4.8, both in form 32-bit or 64-bit.

Known problems of production are described here .

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is based on Debian Testing, uses a repository Debian, but declared more stable – updates are made available to users after some additional testing and compatibility testing in a “settler» Linux Mint, which formed the so-called «Update Packs» for users.
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Mate desktop that no longer officially Fork of the more advanced Gnome 2, was released in the first stable version 1.2.

Mate calls himself a “traditional” desktop environment and is thus in contrast to the Gnome developers who see the GNOME Shell and GNOME as the default interface of Gnome no longer care for 2nd The Gnome-Shell was undoubtedly the most controversial part of Gnome 3, in March 2011 appeared was. Many experienced users exerted massive criticism of the awkwardness of the operation. With the release of Gnome 2.3 , the criticism was, however, been much quieter. The community had become self-help and numerous extensions developed for the Gnome shell, including those that optimize the operation or restore the old behavior of Gnome 2 again. Since the beginning of December 2011 approved extensions are also officially offered by Gnome.
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Presented by the next release of the desktop MATE 1.2 – The GNOME 2 fork that provides an intuitive and attractive desktop.

Here are the main changes and improvements in this version:

• Numerous bug fixes;
• All configuration files have been moved to ~ / .config / mate;
• in the file manager is added Caja undo changes (undo / redo);
• in the management daemon adds support for PulseAudio backends and GStreamer;
• new applications: mozo (fork alacarte), python-caja, caja-gksu, caja-image-converter;
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Was released at the moment the most popular distribution Linux – Linux Mint 12 “Lisa”!

Of the major changes should be noted:

• Moving to GNOME 3;
• creation of the extension package for him, called MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extensions), which makes an unusual GNOME Shell in familiar desktop environment;
• support MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) with the ability to install with GNOME 3;
• Two new desktop theme, Mint-Z and Mint-Z-Dark, based on the Mint-X and Zukiwto;
• Using the default search engine Duck-Duck Go;

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Linux Mint, a popular Ubuntu derivative, has appeared in version 12 and goes by the name Lisa. Linux Mint is considered to be very user friendly and comes with many of their own tools.

Linux Mint 12 is based on Ubuntu 11:10 and a 3.0 kernel. After the developer at the latest versions still refused to use Gnome 3 desktop environment, this version now comes with Gnome 3.2, and the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE). MGSE is a level that you can use with the Gnome user in the “traditional way”. Either all conventional elements are activated or only certain parts like the bottom panel, the applications menu or window list. Users who do not want to miss the famous Gnome can, on the gnome-2-Fork Mate draw. This is either included on the installation DVD or can be installed using the meta-meta-package mint-mate.

The default search engine in Linux Mint 12 is DuckDuckGo , which stores neither user data nor how many people based searches other search engines. Normally come DuckDuckGo search results from Yahoo / Windows Live, users can be using the! Bang syntax, however, other search engines or sites use for their searches, such as Google or Youtube. In addition, Linux Mint is a new business model and supports only standard search engines, which involve the distribution of their revenues. Users, however, are free to install other search engines.
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