simonlang Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Beta 1 is heading out the door this Thursday — but it’s borrowing a familiar set of clothes for its debut… Teased by Ubuntu MATE on social media is the following screenshot of something that shows a Unity-style layout for the MATE desktop complete with a global menu and a left-hand app launcher.  “There’s a Mutiny coming!,” the Ubuntu MATE team teases. “Yes, that is a top menu. Yes, this is Ubuntu MATE. See you Thursday for the Beta 1 release!”. If you use MATE because you like your desktop looking a little more 2000s do not panic: the Mutiny panel layout is not shipping as the default setting and is entirely optional. The Mutiny panel layout uses two panels to mimic the look of Unity: A 24px top panel with topmenu-gtk applet, an indication and system notification area, a clock applet and a session management button. The 48px left panel with a menu applet, dock applet, workspace switcher and trash can. If you’re already running the latest Ubuntu MATE 16.04 builds you can try The Mutiny layout for yourself: Open Ubuntu MATE Settings Panel Layouts > ‘Munity’ (or ‘Mutiny Fresh’) source @neowin: it's highly annoying that posting is so restricted here. i tried about 5 times to post that topic and always got an error. so i have to manually post it with only a link and a pic and add the text later on. for sure, this can't be normal. 3 Share Link to post Share on other sites
Unobscured Vision Share Posted February 23, 2016 Well, well. Interesting that they achieved that layout without too much effort. Something to be learned here. 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
simplezz Share Posted February 25, 2016 Gonna give this a try on my netbook. I like Unity but it's quite resource intensive. This seems like a good compromise. 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites
James7 Veteran Share Posted March 1, 2016 This is interesting indeed. I did like Unity in some ways, and I loved old Gnome. I used MATE for a while. I've been using XFCE (via Ubuntu Studio) set up like MATE/old Gnome for a while, though. Link to post Share on other sites
simonlang Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 so it's there. together with a few other layouts. interesting options for a relatively lightweight DE like mate. Link to post Share on other sites
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