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I use MATE exclusively. It is a GNOME 2 redezined for Gnome 3 base or
something like that. It has ALL you need to work as fast as you can,

you

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can even see all your icons in traybar so you can see instantly if

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have messages or mail waiting for you, with just a eyeball movement
without touching the mouse. For CentOS 7.7  it is in EPEL, we are

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waiting for CentOS 8 rebuilt (from Fedora 28).

Yeah, I know. I use MATE on C7 too. But is this a viable option in the long run? I'm going to try GNOME 3 classic once again. I haven't touched GNOME 3 since C7 was released. Hopefully some useful features have been added since then. I mostly miss workspaces and ability to pin a lot of pics and documents to the desktop.

Yeah, me too. As soon as I tried MATE I switched to it and never came back to Gnome 3 Shell. Biggest problems I hade with "Gnome 3 Shell" was it is/was hiding traybar icons so I had to use a mouse to point to the coner to see if I reciseved new message or mail. If I am not at PC to hear/see a popup I have to remember to waste time to check if something new came up. That and if I remember corectly placing documents on desktops was not possible. MATE is an active project that I do not belive will die out.

We shall see. I still have a C6 box with GNOME 2. Relaxing. )