At the end of the 1990s, Xfce was rewritten from XForms to Gtk 2; by version 4.14 its developers moved it to Gtk 3. The MATE desktop started out as a fork of GNOME 2, which also used Gtk 2 ...
According to the Linux Mint website, the Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions are all undergoing testing right now and if they pass, they will start to filter out to the Linux Mint mirrors before an ...