MATE (software)

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MATE
Mate-logo.svg
MATE Desktop Environment 1.8 - About.png
MATE Desktop Environment 1.8
Developer(s) Perberos and MATE Developers
Initial release August 19, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-08-19)
Stable release 1.14.1[1] / May 21, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-05-21)
Development status Active
Written in C, C++, Python[2]
Operating system Unix-like with X11
Available in Multilingual
Type Desktop environment
License GNU LGPL, GNU GPL
Website mate-desktop.org

MATE (/ˈmɑːteɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. It is named after the South American plant yerba mate and tea made from the herb, mate.[3] The name was originally all capital letters to follow the nomenclature of other Free Software desktop environments like KDE and LXDE. The backronym "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" was subsequently adopted by most of the MATE community, again in the spirit of Free Software like GNU. The use of a new name, instead of GNOME, avoids conflicts with GNOME 3 components.

History

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See also: Controversy over GNOME 3

GNOME 3 (released in April 2011) replaced the classic desktop metaphor, substituting its native user interface: GNOME Shell. This action led to some criticism from parts of the free software community. Some users refused to accept the new interface design of GNOME and called for continued development of GNOME 2.[4] An Argentine user of Arch Linux started the MATE project[5] in order to meet this demand[6] and announced the availability of MATE on 18 June 2011.[7]

Software components

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See also: List of GTK+ applications

MATE has forked a number of applications originating as the GNOME Core Applications, and developers have written several other applications from scratch. The forked applications have new names - mostly in Spanish:

  • Caja (box) – File manager (from Nautilus)
  • Pluma (quill) – Text editor (from Gedit)
  • Eye of MATE – Image viewer (from Eye of GNOME)
  • Atril (lectern) – Document viewer (from Evince)
  • Engrampa (staple) – Archive manager (from Archive Manager)
  • MATE Terminal – Terminal emulator (from GNOME Terminal)
  • Marco (frame) – Window manager (from Metacity)
  • Mozo (waiter)  – Menu item editor (from Alacarte)

Further development

MATE fully supports the GTK+ 3 application framework. The project is supported by Ubuntu MATE lead developer Martin Wimpress and by the Linux Mint development team:[8]

We consider MATE yet another desktop, just like KDE, Gnome 3, Xfce etc. ... and based on the popularity of Gnome 2 in previous releases of Linux Mint, we are dedicated to support it and to help it improve.

New features have been added to Caja such as undo/redo[9] and diff viewing for file replacements.[10]

MATE 1.6 removes some deprecated libraries, moving from mate-conf (a fork of GConf) to GSettings, and from mate-corba (a fork of GNOME's Bonobo) to D-Bus.[11]

Releases history

Date Version
2011-06-18 Announced at Arch Linux forum
2011-08-19 Initial release
2012-04-16 1.2
2012-07-30 1.4
2013-04-02 1.6
2014-03-04 1.8
2014-09-29 1.8.1
2015-03-13 1.8.2
2015-06-11 1.10
2015-11-05 1.12
2016-04-08 1.14

Adoption

MATE 1.2 was released on 16 April 2012. MATE has been one of the default desktop environments shipped with Linux Mint since version 12 "Lisa",[12][13] Linux Mint Debian Edition since "201303",[14][15][16][17] Sabayon Linux since release 10,[18] a Fedora spin (since Fedora 18) ,[19] and as the desktop environment in Ubuntu MATE 14.10.[20]

MATE is also available in the official repositories of several other Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Debian, Mageia, Gentoo, openSUSE and PCLinuxOS.[21] Aside from that, there are third party repositories for Slackware.[22] Version 3.5 and up of GhostBSD include MATE as the default desktop environment, making it the second inclusion of MATE as a default desktop, after Linux Mint,[23] and the first in a BSD-derived OS. It is also available for FreeBSD.[24]

Ubuntu MATE

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Main article: Ubuntu MATE
Ubuntu MATE logo

In November 2014, the Ubuntu MATE team released version 14.04 LTS, which will be supported until April 2019.[25]

In March 2015, Ubuntu MATE was granted official Ubuntu flavour status from version 15.04 onwards.[26]

The Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS available in April 2016 (alpha 2 available in February) will be the first Ubuntu MATE distribution guaranteed to be supported 5 years.

Gallery

See also

  • Cinnamon (software) - desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint team and based on GNOME 3
  • Xfce - similarly lightweight desktop environment that also utilizes the GTK+ application framework

References

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