xfce, its the new gnome.
Personally I use fluxbox. Fast, simple, intuitive. No clutter. The surprising thing about it is that if you give it to a technophobe, after ten minutes they are at home.
Contrary to HIG dogma.
Al
On Sunday 04 November 2012 12:30:20 Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 4 November 2012 00:18, Steve Pearce stevepearce.dev@gmail.com wrote:
Bev, are you aware of the MATE project? It's a well maintained fork of Gnome 2 and is supported on recent Ubuntu releases.
See the download page here for installation instructions: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
No I wasn't but it looks interesting. Thanks. (Gnome OS apparently due in 2014. Also a possibility.)
Bev.