🔗 MATE Desktop
🔗 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.
🔗 Owners
- Name: Dan Mashal
- Email: dan.mashal AT fedoraproject.org
🔗 Co-maintainers
- Name: Rex Dieter
- Email: rdieter AT fedoraproject.org
🔗 Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-09-25
- Percentage of completion: 90%
- Tagoh of i18n team has offered support to update imsettings for MATE Desktop
Update 09-25-2012: Almost all packages approved. The feature is almost complete. Have a working desktop. Working out the final kinks.
🔗 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.
🔗 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.
🔗 Scope
List of packages being imported in to fedora:
mate-common -- Approved.
mate-doc-utils -- Approved.
mate-corba -- Approved.
libmatewnck -- Approved.
mate-conf -- Approved.
libmatecomponent -- Approved.
mate-mime-data -- Approved.
mate-vfs -- Approved.
libmate -- Approved.
libmatecanvas -- Approved.
libmatecomponentui -- Approved.
libmatekeyring -- Approved.
mate-keyring -- Approved.
libmateui -- Approved.
libmatenotify -- Approved.
libmatekbd -- Approved.
libmateweather -- Approved.
mate-icon-theme Approved.
mate-dialogs -- Approved.
mate-desktop -- Approved.
mate-file-manager -- Approved.
mate-notification-daemon -- Approved.
mate-backgrounds -- Approved.
mate-menus -- Approved.
mate-window-manager -- Approved.
mate-polkit -- Approved.
mate-settings-daemon -- Approved.
mate-control-center -- Submitted for review.
mate-panel -- Submitted for review.
mate-settings-daemon -- Submitted for review.
mate-session-manager -- not ready yet
🔗 How To Test
Upon approval of all packages (and changes to comps git) a user would type "yum install @mate" 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 (from my understanding commit to comps would cover this).
🔗 User Experience
It will improve the user's desktop experience by giving them another choice of Desktops that they can use with Fedora.
🔗 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.
🔗 Contingency Plan
- If this feature is not ready by the deadline it will be included in the next Fedora release.
🔗 Documentation
- MATE Desktop website here.
🔗 Release Notes
- This is the initial release of MATE Desktop for Fedora 17/18. 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 90% complete.
