Making vanilla MATE look like Unity
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I am trying to optimize the MATE desktop environment on a 21:9 screen laptop. I simply want to minimize vertical pixels used by panels, etc..
The discontinued Unity desktop sounded good for this very specific reason. Subsequently Ubuntu MATE offered a panel layout named "Mutiny" that looked like Unity a lot. Yet I really dislike Ubuntu and its spins (especially the Chinese spin named "Ubuntu Kylin").
The wiki of Ubuntu MATE community says that the panels can be fully customized using MATE Tweak. Is this possible in free/libre distributions like Debian (without non-free firmware) or Trisquel?
Note: I currently use a not-so-perfect workaround. I combined the two panels of vanilla MATE into just one and it looks cluttered.
> Making vanilla MATE look like Unity
I'd never want anything to look like Unity. I didn't realize it was possible to make GNOME look so ugly until Ubuntu made it look like Unity in 18.04.
The 21:9 screen is an interesting case though. I can see a vertical panel like Unity's being useful there, since a horizontal panel that long would be mostly empty.
If you're into tiling window managers, that might help utilize the horizontal space. i3 plays quite nicely with MATE.
> The wiki of Ubuntu MATE community says that the panels can be fully customized using MATE Tweak. Is this possible in free/libre distributions like Debian (without non-free firmware) or Trisquel?
I'm not aware of freedom issues with MATE Tweak. Ubuntu's version is apparently slightly modified for Trisquel
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/blob/flidas/helpers/make-mate-tweak
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/blob/flidas/helpers/DATA/mate-tweak/screensaver-nounredir.patch
but not in a way that should limit your ability to customize panels.
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