Take the tour ×  I am running Fedora 16 and keep wanting to do
something about the awkward Desktop. I tried several shell
extensions but wasn't satisfied with the results, then I heard
about MATE, is there a tutorial on how to install it?
share|improve this question Just FYI, Mate is not your only
choice anymore: There's Cinnamon now, too, taking the approach
of forking GNOME Shell to create a GNOME2-ish experience.
(Github repository) –  sr_ Jan 4 '12 at 9:48 Is there something
similar to "MGSE" (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions) –  Dejan Jan 4
'12 at 15:07 @sr_ i will accept your answer. –  Dejan Jan 9 '12
at 14:43 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 1 down vote accepted
The MATE-desktop wiki reports an update on availability of MATE
for Fedora:  News since 2012/01/20: Wolfgang Ulbrich built
experimental MATE x86_64 rpms for Fedora 16. To install them,
follow those steps:  yum install
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-
fedora/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/mate-desktop-
release-16-