I made a comment on Linux Mint 14 RC page. They give me hope that the whole GNOME fiasco will get better again.
Here is my comment:
BUGS FOUND: I just tried the live CD for 64-bit MATE and Cinnamon.
Cinnamon - Gedit 3 doesn't have the embedded terminal in the gedit-plugins package, even though it's listed in the description. On Mint 13, the terminal was present, but there was a bug where the coloring didn't match with gnome-terminal's profiles like in older versions.
MATE - pluma doesn't have any of the plugins ported that were in the gedit 2 repositories, such as the embedded terminal
People may call me crazy, but I'm a heavy/power user of gedit/mate, so these have been somewhat of deal breakers for me to upgrading beyond Mint 11 which I use now since it has good old gedit2. Frankly, the direction GNOME has taken forcing MATE to branch has caused me a lot of pain and heartache lately concerning linux.
I miss the good old Ubuntu 10.10 and Linux Mint 11 days, where everything was pretty much almost perfect, but the changes by GNOME have stripped features, messed with my ability to use Compiz, and left my gedit plugin development in limbo. I don't know weather to port my plugins to pluma, rewrite them for gedit 3, or both (which is kinda what I've been doing). I have yet to make the plunge from gedit 2 other than in VMs.
Even ignoring the argument between the classical desktop metaphor and the new one, I'm finally seeing linux get some of it's customization back to the GNOME world, but still not to levels of 2010. And for a while the themes were atrocious (Just an X button, and it was big and ugly. Emerald gave me more power over window decoration.).
Help me Mint Kenobi, you're my only hope! :-)
Thank you so much for your work with MATE and GNOME to try and bring back the best we've lost.
Source: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2205&cpage=4#comment-80475
