MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 has been released and announced by Mate Desktop Developer team. MATE Desktop Environment is a traditional looking desktop environment derived from Gnome 2, specially designed for Gnome 2 Fans who did not want to switch to Gnome 3 for several reason. On this release, MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 fixes numerous bugs, new themes, improvements and bug fixes..

Here’s some changes of MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 :

New themes added to mate-notification-daemon

Mate-icon-theme-faenza now available

Mate-character-map now available

Mate-screensaver now supports GDM user switching

Mate-keyring and libmatekeyring backends updated and now integrate properly

Caja-dropbox package now available

File sharing now available via bluetooth

Added option to use fast alt-tabbing when compositing is enabled in marco

Removed indicator-applet-session

Removed nyancat from the mate-desktop about dialog

Forked libwnck (now libmatewnck)

Caja improvements:

Added a button to get the difference between files in the file conflict dialog

Bookmarks can now be opened in the places side pane via the enter and space keys

Restored toggle button for text based location bar

For further information about this release, HERE

Install MATE Desktop Environment 1.4 On Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13/Debian

Ubuntu 12.04 – To install MATE Desktop Environment 1.4 on your Ubuntu 12.04, add a PPA and install it with following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

Linux Mint 13 – use the repository for Ubuntu, then edit file /etc/apt/preferences with followoing commads:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main" ----------------------------------------- sudo cat >> /etc/apt/preferences <<-EOF Package: * Pin: origin packages.mate-desktop.org Pin-Priority: 700 EOF ----------------------------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

Debian wheezy – Edit file /etc/apt/source.list then add repo Mate Desktop Environment

sudo cat >> /etc/apt/source.list <<-EOF deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main EOF ----------------------------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment -----------------------------------------

Done!!..

