MATE Linux desktop environment’s biggest feature is that it doesn’t eat your hardware resources. The forked packages have been renamed to avoid conflict with GNOME 3. MATE Linux desktop also comes with many forked versions of GNOME Core Applications and many developed-from-scratch applications. It follows the recursive acronym tradition and stands for MATE Advanced Traditional Environment. MATE is a very lightweight desktop environment with an intuitive and attractive interface. Like Cinnamon, MATE is also forked out from GNOME 2 to deliver features that GNOME 3 lacked at that time. MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments have many similarities in terms of their histories and origins. The UI leaves much more to be desired and is not that modern-looking and intuitive.
This includes unofficial Ubuntu variant Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix, Fedora (as a spin), EndeavourOS, and Manjaro Linux.
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE FULL#
Besides Linux Mint, other Linux distros have also adopted Cinnamon to give users slick and full control of a desktop.
This is one reason Linux Mint shipping Cinnamon (by default) tops our list of best Linux distributions for beginners alongside Ubuntu. Cinnamon is one such desktop that gives an easier and more familiar experience to people transitioning from Windows.
It is all about user experience, full of animations and effects. But MGSE didn’t meet the expectations of the Linux Mint team, and they started the Cinnamon project to create a forked graphical shell.Ĭinnamon has matured into a complete desktop environment over time, but some people still believe it’s a graphical shell. That’s when an improved version of the GNOME shell was created and was called Mint GNOME Shell Extensions (MGSE). The Linux mint team couldn’t go for the GNOME shell as it didn’t fit their goals, but there was no alternative. In addition to opening and closing apps, you can also execute shell commands using the launcher. KRunner is the launcher on this top Linux desktop, which acts as a mini command line. Jump Lists are another addition to the task manager allowing you to access the main options for a program by performing a right-click on its launcher icon. It offers users the freedom to add multiple panels on the desktop. This feature-rich and powerful desktop environment is home to many desktop widgets. With the latest Plasma 5.19, you can preview the image file directly from the default KDE Konsole terminal.
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE SOFTWARE#
It contains several notable software such as default and most advanced file manager Dolphin and Okular document viewer. KDE Plasma also ships tools and utilities that are collectively known as KDE Applications. It’s available for the Linux family of operating systems. Compared to other desktops, it has the most modern look and feels. Linux Mint is a GNU/Linux distribution to which I have witnessed a great deal of respect.The Plasma Linux desktop environment by the KDE software community is one of the most customizable graphical desktop environments. It is a solid operating system that comes with a desktop environment of its own (though it is based on Gnome Shell & its applications) and when it comes to usability & control, it really puts the users at the top. So as soon as Linux Mint 15 ‘Olivia’ got officially released, I downloaded it and as usual, ran few tests, took few measurements, and came up with this review. Linux Mint has two flavors, featuring ‘Cinnamon’ (1.8) & ‘MATE’ (1.6) desktop environments. This review is based on the ‘Cinnamon’ edition.īut please remember that I will not be able go through all the slight changes, but will mention some of the easily visible changes of the desktop & ‘Nemo’ (file manager). Then towards the end, I will also present you with performance based statistics that I have gathered as well. The desktop context menu has slightly changed & has received two new sub menu items. One is because of the improvements done to ‘Nemo’, and the other is due to the newly introduced ‘Desklets’ feature (more below). Users can now enable or disable showing hidden files & add ‘Desklets’, through the context menu. ‘Desklets’ are small applications (applets) that run on your desktop, usually designed to perform a single, simple task.
#ADDING DESKLETS MATE WINDOWS#
MS Windows calls it ‘Gadgets’, KDE calls them ‘Plasmoids’ and few years back, Gnome 2x users also had access to similar applications through a third party API called ‘gDesklets’.Īnyhow, as shortly mentioned above, adding or removing ‘Desklets’ in ‘Cinnamon’ is pretty easy. Improved ‘Hot Corner’ & a Desktop Overview Window … Linux Mint 15 comes with only three of them, but more can be added through internet (they only have 4 of them but that will change in the future).
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