I just did a bundle upload of all MATE 1.14 related packages to Debian unstable. Packages are currently building for the 23 architectures supported by Debian, build status can be viewed on the DDPO page of the Debian MATE Packaging Team [1]

Credits

Again a big thanks to the packaging team. Martin Wimpress again did a fabulous job in bumping all packages towards the 1.14 release series during the last weeks. During last week, I reviewed his work and uploaded all binary packages to a staging repository.

Also a big thanks to Vangelis Mouhtsis, who recently added more hardening support to all those MATE packages that do some sort of C compilation at build time.

After testing all MATE 1.14 packages on a Debian unstable system, I decided to do a bundle upload today. Packages should be falling out of the build daemons within the next couple of hours/days (depending on the architecture being built for).

GTK2 -> GTK3

The greatest change for this release of MATE to Debian is the switch over from GTK2 to GTK3.

People using the MATE desktop environment on Debian systems are invited to test the new MATE 1.14 packages and give feedback via the Debian bug tracker, esp. on the user experience regarding the switch over to GTK3.

Thanks to all who help getting MATE 1.14 in Debian better every day!!!

Known issues when running in NXv3 sessions

The new GTK3 build of MATE works fine locally (against local X.org server). However, it causes some trouble (i.e. graphical glitches) when running in an NXv3 based remote desktop session. Those issues have to be addressed by me (while wearing my NXv3 upstream hat), I guess (sigh...).

light+love,

Mike

[1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-mate-team@lists.alioth.deb...