MATE (Tulisan oleh Steve Zesch)

Stefano presents at openSUSE conference

Steve Zesch — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:46:13 GMT

On July 20th 2013 Stefano Karapetsas presented his talk on MATE at openSUSE Conference!

The talk introduces MATE to those who haven't heard of it, explains the reasons for creating MATE, explains the difference with GNOME Classic and GNOME Fallback sessions, and describes the features and changes added after the fork.

Changes to mate-notification-daemon

Steve Zesch — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:07:12 GMT

The mate-notification-daemon has a new feature in MATE 1.6 that allows users to select which monitor they want to display notifications on. The current behavior only displays notifications on the monitor which is currently active (where the pointer is). The behavior will default to as it has always been, but the user can change the settings by modifying the "use-active-monitor" and "monitor-number" keys in via dconf-editor or they can run mate-notification-properties and edit their settings via a GUI.

Below is a screenshot of mate-notification-properties set for notifications to be displayed on an active monitor. Note that "Use Active Monitor" is selected, which disables the combobox for selecting a monitor.

Below is a screenshot of mate-notification-properties set for notifications to be displayed on a specific monitor. Note that "Use Active Monitor" is not selected, which enables the combobox for selecting the monitor to be enabled. The monitor number is set to 2. This will display on my third monitor, since counting starts at 0 instead of 1.

MATE package repository for Fedora

Steve Zesch — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:51:28 GMT

We are now directing users to use the official Fedora package repository now. For instructions on using this repository please consult our installation guide for Fedora.

For more information about MATE's official inclusion in Fedora, see the following:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop

If you have any questions regarding installing MATE on Fedora then please ask for help in our #fedora-mate IRC channel or for general MATE questions join us in #mate IRC channel.

MATE package repository for Ubuntu Quantal

Steve Zesch — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:52:18 GMT

An Ubuntu package repository for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is now available for our 1.4 release. As usual, follow these instructions.

If you're upgrading from an older release please make sure that you remove the old repositories and add the new ones, otherwise you will encounter problems.

MATE 1.4 released

Steve Zesch — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:22:50 GMT

The team is proud to announce the release of MATE 1.4.

Here are the main changes and improvements in this release:

Numerous bug fixes
mate-keyring and libmatekeyring backends updated and now integrate properly
caja-dropbox package now available
New themes added to mate-notification-daemon
Removed indicator-applet-session
File sharing now available via Bluetooth
Added option to use fast alt-tabbing when compositing is enabled in marco
mate-icon-theme-faenza now available
mate-character-map now available
mate-screensaver now supports GDM user switching
Removed nyancat from the mate-desktop about dialog
Forked libwnck as libmatewnck
Caja improvements:
- Restored toggle button for text based location bar
- Bookmarks can now be opened in the places side pane via the enter and space keys
- Added a button to get the difference between files in the file conflict dialog

Reporting Bugs

Steve Zesch — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:22:52 GMT

We are currently in the process of switching to handling all our issues via the mate-desktop project on GitHub instead of Perberos' page. The reason is simple: when Perberos is away none of the other developers can close tickets. This creates a bit of a mess.

Now, when you go to report a bug you must chose the correct GitHub repository to report the issue in. It's pretty simple. If there's a bug with mate-panel, then submit the issue on the mate-panel issue tracker.

We'll are no longer monitoring Perberos' issue tracker, so we ask that you refrain from opening new bugs there.

Thanks for your cooperation.

New wiki and other info

Steve Zesch — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:58:49 GMT

We've recently switched from a wiki at GitHub to a our own available from wiki.mate-desktop.org. Please reference this wiki from now on. Naturally, anyone is welcome to contribute.

For those of you who aren't already aware, you can report issues on github. At the moment, this is all we have in terms of bug reporting, but we do have a bugtracker in the works. We'll announce it here when it's ready.

We also have future plans for a Mate forum, but that is at a very early stage.

For those of you using Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint, you can access the 1.1.x development branch of our packages using the tridex repository. Check out the download page on the wiki for more info. Linux Mint also has our 1.0.x release packages in their repository. If anyone is still using Amanas' PPA, it is no longer supported. The rest of our 1.1.x releases will be hosted on the tridex repositories. Future releases (eg. 1.2.0) will be hosted here.

We are proud to announce that packing for openSUSE has begun. Once we have more information we will add it to our wiki and make an announcement.

Lastly, we have had several individuals join our IRC channel and ask about Gentoo ebuilds for MATE. With that being said, we are looking for people who are willing to set these up.

Happy Holidays from the Mate team.