MATE 1.18 released

[Posted March 15, 2017 by corbet]

Version 1.18 of the MATE desktop has been released. "The release is focused on completing the migration to GTK3+ and adopting new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE Desktop 1.16 still relied on."

MATE 1.18 released

Posted Mar 16, 2017 10:15 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (4 responses)

I'm really surprised (and pleased) to see MATE got traction and is moving forward. There was the potential for antagonism with the GNOME folks when MATE was founded, but this is a good example of Open Source working, IMHO: the abandoned GNOME 2 stuff lives on, the people who care about it work on it as MATE; GNOME 3 continues on its own way, and now MATE is replumbed on top of the newest version of the common libraries.

MATE 1.18 released

Posted Mar 23, 2017 11:27 UTC (Thu) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link] (3 responses)

Yes but: The linux desktop is now more fragmented than ever, isn't it?

Unity, Cinnamon, MATE, Gnome 3, Plasma, XFCE, and more

MATE 1.18 released

Posted Mar 24, 2017 20:59 UTC (Fri) by utoddl (guest, #1232) [Link] (1 responses)

One's "more fragmented" is another's "more choice". This is not a bad thing.

How much choice do you have on Windows 10? (I really don't know; last windows I used was ME.)

MATE 1.18 released

Posted Mar 24, 2017 21:47 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

So you'd prefer even more choice?

MATE 1.18 released

Posted Mar 24, 2017 22:53 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

It's becoming less fragmented: we used to have to interact with *all* of GTK+2, Qt4, Gtk3, Qt5 (and trace amounts of EFL) on an average desktop a few years back. Qt4 is nearly gone, and the GTK2-using world is well on its way to Qt5 now, which is good as it keeps everyone's hard-earned themes working :-)