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Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 7th, '13, 00:57
by Dupo
Hi,

tarakbumba wrote:Hi. I still do not have a working internet connection. Writing from a relative's computer. I'll start work on MATE end of this month. Please be patient. Thanks


I know we must be patient and I'm waiting, but have you got news ?

Thanks.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 25th, '13, 23:17
by danths
maybe the whole idea has been abandoned

passed long time without news

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 26th, '13, 23:45
by Dupo
Hi,

danths wrote:maybe the whole idea has been abandoned

passed long time without news


I think so. There is no news since one month, and there is no new packages since four months.

It's probably over. :(

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 27th, '13, 14:16
by tarakbumba
danths wrote:maybe the whole idea has been abandoned

passed long time without news

Do not give up. :) I know i was away more than i hope. Moving with family and job was somewhat a pain but i managed to get my freedom. I' ll start working on MATE again tonight. I had to be sure some packages migration. Caja, atril etc. will be renamed as mate-file-manager, mate-document-viewer etc. I hop i can finish Mageia3 packagaging and upload to site Sunday. Thanks for your support and patience.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 27th, '13, 23:27
by Dupo
Hi,

good news !!! :)

Thanks. ;)

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 28th, '13, 18:52
by osifa
Hi,

I installed mate on my laptop (hp 530) from your repository, and it worked successfully. Clicking function of the touchpad didn't work automatically, so I did it as manualy. Also, it crashed when I used kde themes. I haven't see another problem.

A screenshot:

Image

Artist of wallpaper is nmsmith. I found it on the caedes.

I am glad it for now. Thanks for great work, tarakbumba.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 29th, '13, 13:37
by tarakbumba
Thank you! All packages uploaded to repo.
Due to package naming changes and versioning changes; YOU have to completely REMOVE all MATE packages and reinstall them from repo. Otherwise your mate installation will crash.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 29th, '13, 15:45
by Dupo
Hi,

yeah ! :D

I will test it.

Thanks a lot. ;)

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 29th, '13, 19:26
by danths
Code: Select all
urpmi task-mate-minimal


Code: Select all
A requested package cannot be installed:
mate-themes-1.6.1-1.mga3.noarch (due to unsatisfied gtk-murrine-engine)
Continue installation anyway? (Y/n)

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 29th, '13, 23:16
by osifa
tarakbumba wrote:Thank you! All packages uploaded to repo.
Due to package naming changes and versioning changes; YOU have to completely REMOVE all MATE packages and reinstall them from repo. Otherwise your mate installation will crash.

I removed all mate packages. I updated your repo but mate wasn't reinstalled.

Image

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 30th, '13, 00:41
by tarakbumba
Sorry for this. Some packages were not uploaded but it should be fine now. I realized that most packages not signed. I' ll fix this issue tomorrow night, i hope.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Sep 30th, '13, 11:58
by osifa
tarakbumba wrote:... i hope.

:D

Ok. I wait.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 1st, '13, 00:23
by Dupo
Hi,

I found something very interesting. It's DockBarX. Look here. They say it's available for Mate. Source code (tarball) is here (DockbarX and Extra themes). Is DockbarX available on Mageia 3 (packages) ?

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 10th, '13, 01:26
by Dupo
Hi,

Mate works but I've got a problem. I can't use Mintmenu. I installed mintmenu package with the dependencies (available in your i586 repository). When I try to add the Mintmenu applet on dashboard, nothing happens. I launched mintmenu in the terminal, and i've got this message : "sh: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py: no such file or folder of this type".

Can you solved this problem ?

Thanks a lot.

Note: I use a 32 bit computer.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 10th, '13, 14:46
by tarakbumba
Hi Dupo. First of all thanks for your comments on MATE. It is strange that your MintMenu problem, possibly a library path missing in rpm spec file. I'll look into it tonight. For your dockbarx request, i may package it, someday but not now due to my concentration on MATE and some other packages and lack of time.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 10th, '13, 23:48
by Dupo
Hi,

ok. Thanks to give us Mate on Mageia 3. ;)

Can you tell us if new packages (updates) will be available soon for your Mageia 3 Mate version ?

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 11th, '13, 00:36
by tarakbumba
I don't suppose to new versions will be added; unless bug fixes. Mate is now new development versioning phase, 1.7, like GNOME does. Plus, I provide these packages using Cauldron srpms (which are committed by me) and i intend to keep these sync with Mageia 4 packages; Cauldron is about to version freeze (means no new versions will be added but bugfixes) so you should wait for Mate 1.8 and perhaps Mageia5 development.

Please re-try installing mintmenu package. It should be fixed by now.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 12th, '13, 11:27
by Dupo
Hi,

can you check the pubkey file in media_info directory (for i586 and x86_64 repositories) ? I think it is not correct. MCC packages manager told me that mintmenu package have an invalid signature or a missing signature. I think this file must be updated.

Thanks.

Note: About DockbarX, I saw a package named dockbarx-mate. But you can see here it's in a ppa repository : https://launchpad.net/~dockbar-main/+archive/ppa

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Oct 26th, '13, 23:53
by Dupo
Hi,

is someone tested media keys ? I tested a multimedia keyboard with media keys, but when I pressed volume buttons (raise volume and down volume) or Mute button, it doesn't work on Mageia 3 Mate version. Nothing happens. Is there a solution ?

Thanks.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 24th, '13, 18:39
by ralgith
Any news on this front? I really want to see an official release of Mate with Mageia 4 :)

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 24th, '13, 20:00
by doktor5000
Please check the documentation, Mate is in the repositories now:

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_beta1#Mate
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_Errata#Mate
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Mate

The same applies for Cinnamon.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 25th, '13, 00:04
by ralgith
Well, that's great news. However, it doesn't tell me if all the outstanding issues raised in this thread have been fixed. I'm fully up to date from the Mate for Mageia 3 repo and still having the issue with the "window decoration" (minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons and the title bar) not appearing. I guess I was hoping for information on this project as a whole and didn't make that clear ;)

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 26th, '13, 01:44
by tarakbumba
ralgith wrote:Well, that's great news. However, it doesn't tell me if all the outstanding issues raised in this thread have been fixed. I'm fully up to date from the Mate for Mageia 3 repo and still having the issue with the "window decoration" (minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons and the title bar) not appearing. I guess I was hoping for information on this project as a whole and didn't make that clear ;)

Please, do you see any errors in /var/log/xorg.log and ~/.xsession-errors? Copy them a pastebin and link here. I also using mate on my laptop mga3 and did not encounter this problem...

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 26th, '13, 04:22
by ralgith
Both files are attached, and both have errors in them.

Re: [Preview] MATE Desktop Environment

PostPosted: Nov 26th, '13, 04:24
by ralgith
Also, where is mdm? I've noticed it isn't available and I'd rather use it over gdm or kdm.