π MATE Desktop
π Summary
MATE Desktop is based on GNOME 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users who seek a simple, easy to use traditional interface.
π Owners
- Name: Dan Mashal
- Email: dan.mashal AT fedoraproject.org
- Name: Wolfgang Ulbrich
- Email: raveit65 AT fedoraproject.org
π Co-maintainers
- Name: Wolfgang Ulbrich
- Email chat-to-me AT raveit.de
- Name: Rex Dieter
- Email: rdieter AT fedoraproject.org
π Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-08-13
- Percentage of completion: 85%
- Tagoh of i18n team has offered support to update imsettings for MATE Desktop
All packages but one have been submitted. A good percentage have already been approved or are about to be approved.
MATE Desktop itself has been built from source and works great and happily coexists with Gnome 3.
π Detailed Description
MATE is a traditional Gnome 2 like desktop user interface. Many users have expressed interest in this feature since Fedora 15 in which Fedora was switched from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3.
For the advanced user that doesn't want a cutting edge desktop and just wants to keep it simple this is perfect for them.
The popularity of MATE Desktop is very high. It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now.
π Benefit to Fedora
- Attract new users to Fedora.
- Give users another choice and freedom to choose what type of DE/WM they would like to use. This is one of the core foundations of the Fedora project.
π Scope
List of packages being imported in to fedora:
mate-common -- Approved.
mate-doc-utils -- Approved.
mate-corba -- Approved.
libmatenwck -- Approved.
mate-conf -- Approved.
libmatecomponent -- Approved.
mate-mime-data -- Approved.
mate-vfs -- under review
libmate -- Approved.
libmatecanvas -- under review
libmatecomponentui -- under review
libmatekeyring -- Approved.
mate-keyring -- Approved.
libmateui -- under review
libmatenotify -- Approved.
libmatekbd -- under review
libmateweather -- under review
mate-icon-theme under review
mate-dialogs -- Approved.
mate-desktop -- Approved.
mate-file-manager -- Approved.
mate-notification-daemon -- under review
mate-backgrounds -- under review
mate-menus -- under review
mate-window-manager -- under review
mate-polkit -- under review
mate-settings-daemon -- under review
mate-control-center -- not ready yet
mate-panel -- under review
mate-session-manager -- under review
π How To Test
Upon approval of all packages a user would type "yum groupinstall @MATE-Desktop" and it would be added to their list of sessions to log in to on start up.
A "nice to have" feature would be to be included in the Anaconda install from the DVD.
π User Experience
It will improve the user's desktop experience by giving them another choice of Desktops that they can use with Fedora.
π Dependencies
Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840149 for more information.
The main dependencies required by this package are python, GTK2, automake, libtool, gettext and pkgconfig.
mate-common will provide automake autoconf gettext intltool libtool so that it will not be in every package's buildrequires.
π Contingency Plan
- If this feature is not ready by the deadline it will be included in the next Fedora release.
π Documentation
- MATE Desktop website here.
π Release Notes
- This is the initial release of MATE Desktop for Fedora 18. It brings back a classic, intuitive, and easy to use desktop that users have been long requesting.
- Release notes will be further updated as the completion of the project draws near. The project is currently 85% complete.