MATE (desktop environment)
Developer(s) | Clement Lefebvre, Perberos, Stefano Karapetsas, et al.[1] |
---|---|
Initial release | August 19, 2011 |
Stable release | 1.28.2[2]
/ 11 March 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | C[3] |
Operating system | Unix-like, Unix |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | GPLv2+, LGPLv2+ |
Website | mate-desktop |
MATE (/ˈmɑːteɪ/)[4] is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems such as BSD, and illumos operating systems.[5][6]
Name
MATE is named after the South American plant
History
An Argentine user of
MATE was initially announced for Debian on November 8, 2013, at its official website.[12]
MATE became an official Arch Linux community package in January 2014.
Component applications
MATE has forked a number of applications which originated as GNOME Core Applications, and developers have written several other applications from scratch. The forked applications have new names, most of them from Spanish.[13]
Application name | Spanish translation | Forked from | Description | Features |
---|---|---|---|---|
Atril | lectern | Evince | document viewer | EPUB support
Caret navigation support[14] |
Caja | box | GNOME Files (Nautilus) | File Manager | Extension support[15] |
Engrampa | staple | Archive Manager (File Roller)
|
File archiver | |
Eye of MATE | Eye of GNOME | Image viewer | ||
MATE Calculator | GNOME Calculator | Calculator | ||
MATE Control Center | GNOME Control Center | MATE desktop settings | ||
MATE System Monitor | GNOME System Monitor | Graphical resource monitor | ||
MATE Terminal | GNOME Terminal | Terminal emulator | ||
marco | frame | Metacity | MATE window manager | |
Mozo | waiter | Alacarte | Menu editor | |
Pluma | pen | Gedit | Text editor |
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:
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. The most popular Linux desktop was, and arguably is, Gnome 2.[16]
New features have been added to Caja such as undo/redo
One of the aims of the MATE developers is to provide a traditional user experience while using the newest technologies. In MATE 1.20, which was released in February 2018, support for
Release history
Note that there are an odd number of versions between each official release. They are treated as versions under development, and are not announced as official releases.
Date | Version |
---|---|
2011-06-18 | Announced at Arch Linux forum[20] |
2011-08-19 | Initial release[citation needed] |
2012-04-16 | 1.2 |
2012-07-30 | 1.4 |
2013-04-02 | 1.6 |
2014-03-04 | 1.8 |
2015-06-11 | 1.10 |
2015-11-05 | 1.12 |
2016-04-08 | 1.14 |
2016-09-21 | 1.16 |
2017-03-13 | 1.18 |
2018-02-07 | 1.20 |
2019-03-18 | 1.22 |
2020-02-10 | 1.24 |
2021-08-03 | 1.26 |
2024-02-12 | 1.28[21] |
Adoption
The MATE website (as of 8 September 2022) lists 27 Linux distributions and 5 Unix-like operating systems that support the MATE desktop environment.[22]
Reception
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (May 2022) |
See also
References
- ^ "MATE Developers". December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on May 13, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ "version 1.28.2". March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "MATE". github.com. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ a b "MATE Desktop Environment – Where does the name come from?", MATE, archived from the original on May 6, 2021, retrieved July 3, 2015
- ^ "Installation - MATE wiki". Archived from the original on November 23, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
- ^ "Mate and new test ISOs – openindiana". Archived from the original on July 17, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ a b "MATE desktop". O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on October 2, 2022. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
- ^ "Mate Desktop Environment – GNOME2 fork (Page 1) / Community Contributions / Arch Linux Forums". August 21, 2014. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "A Gnome 2 Fork: The MATE Desktop Environment", ingeek, November 17, 2011, archived from the original on February 14, 2014, retrieved December 12, 2016
- Phoronix, archivedfrom the original on June 30, 2016, retrieved December 4, 2011
- ^ Laishram, Ricky (August 4, 2011), Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME For Xfce, Digitizor, archived from the original on April 11, 2015, retrieved May 28, 2021,
While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome-2 environment? – Linus Torvalds
. - ^ Karapetsas, Stefano (November 8, 2013). "Debian MATE Packaging Team". MATE. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ "MATEwiki". mate-desktop.org. Archived from the original on September 19, 2021. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ^ Wimpress, Martin (February 7, 2018). "MATE 1.20 released". MATE. Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
- ^ "MATE 1.26 released". August 10, 2021. Archived from the original on September 21, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Lefebvre, Clem (December 1, 2011), "Important fix for MATE – Feedback needed", The Linux Mint Blog, archived from the original on December 3, 2011, retrieved December 10, 2011
- ^ Karapetsas, Stefano (January 3, 2012), "Undo/Redo in Caja", Stefano Karapetsas's Blog, archived from the original on April 16, 2014, retrieved April 15, 2014
- ^ Karapetsas, Stefano (June 17, 2012), "What's new in next Caja", Stefano Karapetsas's Blog, archived from the original on April 16, 2014, retrieved April 15, 2014
- ^ "Wayland and Meson - MATE wiki". Archived from the original on November 23, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
- ^ "Mate Desktop Environment – GNOME2 fork / Community Contributions / Arch Linux Forums". Archived from the original on August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
- ^ "Index of /releases/1.28/". pub.mate-desktop.org. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
- ^ "MATE Desktop Environment". MATE. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2022.