by Xanayoshi » Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:44 pm
One thing I should point out about Mate, which is along the lines of Gnome 2(you can actually use this too), is the ability to easily create launchers.
It really amounts to right clicking on the desktop and creating a launcher, or with the panel, right clicking, and then choosing add to panel.
In custom launcher for panel and on desktop a command can be entered, making life easier, personally I am partial to
conky
killall conky
killall cairo-dock
killall nautilus
compiz --replace
Don't get me wrong, the fact that every time I turn around, I have to install something with any of the Gnome bases to do a simple thing gets really old, really fast.
You know how you install a font in KDE? You click on the file. You know how you install a font in Gnome 3? You uninstall it and install KDE.