-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I like the Gnome2 UI as well. I'm currently using the MATE spin of Ubuntu 16.04: https://ubuntu-mate.org/ Prior to the existence of Ubuntu-MATE I had successfully loaded the package mate-desktop-environment (and mate-desktop-environment-extras) directly from http://mate-desktop.com/ , most of which settings have successfully transferred over to Ubuntu-MATE (exceptions are some gnome-panel applets, but re-adding those applets fixed that). So there is a high degree of compatibility between Ubuntu-MATE and the release from the MATE Desktop folks. - --Bob. On 2016-08-03 01:19 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 16-08-03 01:12 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
I have been running 14.04 and have no reason to upgrade. [snip] I prefer the tradition Gnome interface with a menu bar at the top. [snip] So I am turning here and hope someone can me find out if/how I can use the traditional menu bar.
I left Ubuntu when they came out with Unity. I went to Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. MATE is based on Gnome 2. MATE allows me to keep the Gnome 2 look on my desktop that I've been using for many years.
You could check to see how you would go about using MATE on Ubuntu. Since it works in Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, you should be able to use it.
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