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 DOT org

Co-maintainers

Name: Rex Dieter

Email: rdieter AT fedoraproject DOT org

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 18

Last updated: 2012-10-15

Percentage of completion: 100%

Tagoh of i18n team has offered support to update imsettings for MATE Desktop - mate-imsettings



Update 10-11-2012: All packages approved and pushed to Fedora 18 stable. Comps commit made, is visible in Anaconda. Works out of the box after Anaconda install. Currently using lightdm. Still working out final kinks.

Setting up a QA test day.

http://i.imgur.com/k5LWa.jpg

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

MATE DE tracker bug

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 -- Approved.

mate-panel -- Approved.

mate-settings-daemon -- Approved.

mate-session-manager -- Approved.

mate-themes -- Approved.



How To Test

Upon approval of all packages (and changes to comps git) a user would type "yum install @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 (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 MATE-DE-Tracker 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