Mr Martin Wimpress, developer at MATE project has announced availability of MATE 1.18, latest stable release of traditional looking, modern desktop environment which was initially started as a fork of outdated GNOME 2.x project.
The main highlight of MATE 1.18 is completion of GTK3+ migration which was started a while back. This release includes desktop applications and other components built against GTK3+ by removing outdated and deprecated framework api calls.
Following are notable changes/highlights of MATE 1.18 release:
The main highlight of MATE 1.18 is completion of GTK3+ migration which was started a while back. This release includes desktop applications and other components built against GTK3+ by removing outdated and deprecated framework api calls.
For more details, see release announcement in MATE project website.
- Entire applications and other desktop components are build against Gt3+
- Requires GTK+ >= 3.14.
- All GTK2+ code has been dropped including the
--with-gtkbuild option.- Completed the migration to
GtkApplicationfromlibunique.- Added libinput to support mouse and touchpad.
- Separate settings for handedness (left/right-handed) and motion acceleration/threshold.
- Better accessibility support (Especially for visually impaired users)
- Caja - The mate file managers comes with several improvements
- Added a copy queue and copy pausing.
- Asking confirmation before moving files to the Trash.
- Support for back/forward mouse buttons for directory navigation.
- Notification when ejected drives are safe to unplug.
- Users can customize background of lock screen instead of using system default one.
- MATE Panel gets several improvements, including:
- Added desktop actions support for additional launch options.
- Added StatusNotifier support.
- Added support for Menulibre menu editor, if installed it is preferred over Mozo.
- Engrampa, the archive manager, includes a number of improvements:
- Added
earandwarto the supported types list.- Check the rar/unrar version to the correct date is shown.
- Fixed compress rar and 7z split into volumes.
- Notifications now implement action icons support, for example playback control icons used by media players.
- Reworked the font viewer to add font browsing mode, support for TTC fonts and expose it in the menus by default.
- Replaced deprecated
upowersuspend/hibernate functions with ConsoleKit2 equivalents.- MATE Terminal adds the ability to close tabs with middle mouse button.
- Atril, the document viewer, has much improved page load times and adds support for
unarchiverused by some comics.- Lots of deprecated GTK+ methods have been replaced and many bugs have been fixed.
- The plugin systems, and all C and Python plugins, in Eye of MATE and Pluma have been ported to
libpeas.- Updated translations.
- A number of memory leaks issues have been addressed.
- MATE Calculator is back and has been ported to GTK3+