From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 29/12/2025 10:08, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   > Charlie Gibbs  writes:   
   >> Richard Kettlewell  wrote:   
   >>> I spent quite a while, 2-3 months IIRC, trying to adapt to Gnome 3   
   >>> (and to adapt it to me). I am quite adaptable, using all of Windows,   
   >>> macOS, Android and desktop Linux regularly, but still didn’t manage   
   >>> to get used to Gnome 3. So MATE it is.   
   >>   
   >> My only contact with Gnome 3 is the API.  I don't do much graphics   
   >> programming, and I work in straight C, not C++.  Gnome was the only   
   >> graphics toolkit I could find with C linkages, so it was Hobson's Choice.   
   >   
   > I suspect you mean GTK, since that’s the toolkit Gnome uses. But that   
   > doesn’t mean you’re using Gnome.   
   >   
   Yes. I think Mint still builds on GTK, but it is not the gnome desktop   
      
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