Metisse Desktop

Izhar Firdaus Follow Support Jan 31, 2007 · 1 min read

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I believe some of us have heard about Metisse desktop environment thats going to be provided by Mandriva to their users. Metisse is quite an old project (since FC1) but havent had any major release until recently. Metisse is designed with usability in mind rather than funky effects - a product of the team's research on Human Computer Interaction subject. It won't make shiny effects but it might help you (and grandmas) to use computer and the desktop easier. See screenshots here

If you're interested with it, theres still no Metisse 0.4 packages for distros other that Mandriva thats has been out in the public yet. However, you can build it from source by following this Howto.

Sadly, It uses a modified Xserver (rather than available compositing from AIGLX/XGL) which immediately turned me off. I don't like polluting my system with from-source installations that might be hard to remove later.

Written by Izhar Firdaus Follow Support

I'm a system architect, data engineer and developer advocate with passion in Free / Open Source software, entrepreneurship, community building, education and martial art. I take enjoyment in bridging and bringing together different FOSS technologies to help businesses and organizations utilize IT infrastructure to aid and optimize their business and organizational process.