Hello,
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:33:53 +0200 Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de wrote:
Am 25.09.19 um 08:18 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic:
All I need for work that feeds me is one good work environment and that is MATE. All tray icons are visible so I can see if message or mail comes without need to move more then eyeball. And stablity of CentOS makes it best option even though versions of apps are not latest and greatest, it is enough they do the job needed.
Exactly :) Could not explain better.
I'm in a total agreement too. Mate (or xfce) on top of CentOS brings me a desktop I can work in. Work means: as a dev station at work - amongst other things because it's close to the RHEL 8 system, which is one of the reference systems we have in our customers community. Works means also: use it as a dev and workstation at home.
Long time ago I was using xfce, because it was behaving almost like gnome2 and was able to get gnome applets in its tray (that was a major one), I think it has lost this ability, at least last time I tried it, this was not possible.
If Mate will not be available for CentOS 8, I will consider this: - building Mate from the sources myself (yeah, w/ all deps) - xfce or icewm from repositories.
For now, I'm postponing my CentOS 8 use until: 1) the live system is available, because I need it to see how it boots and installs on the target systems I have (where CentOS 7 was a total failure - only Ubuntu/Deb were OK), 2) we know if Mate is available or definitely not available from third-party repositories.
Regards,