Caja (file manager)
Added option to use IEC units instead of SI units
Added “Open parent location” option in context menu in search view
Marco (window manager)
Added side-by-side tiling (windows snapping)
Panel
Added support to run dialog and main menu opening with metacity keybindings
Show a progress bar in logout dialog
Control center
Added support for Metacity as window manager
MATE Desktop library
Added MATE User Guide
Added mpaste tool for paste.mate-desktop.org
Eye Of MATE (image viewer)
Added shuffle mode in slideshow
Engrampa (file archiver)
Show always the “extract to” action in caja extension
Screensaver
Show date and time in lock dialog
Applets
Added undo functionality to sticky note applet
New “command” applet to show the output of a command
Rewritten “timer” applet in c
Mouse middle click on volume applet toggles mute state
Dropped packages
Replaced mate-doc-utils with yelp-tools
Replaced libmatekeyring/mate-keyring with libsecret/gnome-keyring
Replaced libmatewnck with libwnck
Replaced mucharmap with gucharmap
Replaced mate-bluetooth with blueman
Merged all caja extensions in a single package
Other improvements
Fixed a lot of code deprecations
Fixed a lot of bugs
Added and improved a lot of translations
As usual, we asked people from distributions that ship MATE what they think about our Desktop Environment.
Mike Gabriel, Debian developer and MATE maintainer:
Tom Wijsman, Gentoo developer and MATE maintainer:I see MATE as one of the most being used desktop shells in Debian Jessie (and beyond).
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo, Co-developer of MATE SlackBuilds Project:Part of our users express that they want to stay with GNOME 2; because they like how things used to be, they run older hardware or they want a more lightweight desktop. Given that GNOME 2 becomes unsupported and will eventually be removed from our meta distribution due to various maintenance, regression and security issues; MATE brings back all the glory with an active development team. Their continuation of GNOME 2's development fixes outstanding issues, brings new and useful features and keeps the good old experience alive and kicking.
Chess Griffin, Co-developer of MATE SlackBuilds Project:MATE shared the same basic philosophies of Slackware, such as simplicity, stability, and no fixed release schedule. It will be released when it's ready and preserving the same metaphor which is proven to be working well. MATE is also easy to be maintained and integrated on top of Slackware since Patrick Volkerding has given a solid foundation as the base layer in which MATE could fill the need of GNOME-based Desktop Environment which Slackware lack of since 2005. I'm looking forward for the evolutionary changes that MATE developers will integrate for the next major release of MATE.
Benjamin Denisart, openSUSE MATE maintainer:MATE is a great desktop environment for those who like the old GNOME 2 experience. I greatly appreciate all the hard work that is put into MATE to keep it stable and mature yet at the same time incorporating new bits where appropriate. The effort to keep MATE agnostic in terms of the user's operating system or distribution is also to be applauded. I enjoy being a part of the MATE SlackBuilds project, which aims to bring the MATE desktop to the Slackware Linux community. Thanks to the entire MATE team!
Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint founder and project leader:The openSUSE team wants to thank MATE developers for their efforts provided for this new version and is proud to announce the availability of gnome-main-menu, for the happiness of users attractived by traditional and easy desktop mind. It's a pleasure for us to work with MATEs and we want to adress them our congratulations.
Wolfgang Ulbrich, MATE maintainer in Fedora:MATE proudly carries the colors of GNOME 2 and continues where the project left off. In many ways and for many people MATE just feels like home. It's simple, stable and full featured. While more recent desktops experiment with new concepts, MATE provides an environment which works exactly as you'd expect it. It's popular within our users and it's the desktop on top of which Linux Mint built its technology and identity since 2006. We're very proud and very happy to support MATE and delighted with each and every new release.
MATE 1.8 is the result of 11 months of intense development and contains 1845 contributions by 57 people, and more than 291 translators.During the Fedora 15/16 releases i was very dissatisfied about the desktop solutions included. After 10 month of using XFCE i got noticed about the MATE desktop, so i decided to build my own desktop for Fedora in December 2011. This work resulted in the first external MATE Desktop repository for Fedora and was used by many users worldwide. There were Fedora spins with that packages in Russia, Latvia and Indonesia. The corollary to this work was to bring the MATE Desktop inside official Fedora together with Dan Mashal with Fedora 18. Two releases later we have a stable and usable desktop solution MATE 1.6 in Fedora 20. MATE 1.8 is currently in Fedora rawhide and will be released with fedora 21 in summer.
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