Applications

Caja

Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop. It allows to browse directories, preview files and launch applications associated with them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the MATE desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems.
Caja is a fork of Nautilus.

Pluma

Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. pluma is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI).
Pluma fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation and printing and print preview support.
Pluma is a fork of Gedit.

Eye of MATE

eom or the Eye of MATE is a simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance.
Eye of MATE is a fork of Eye of GNOME.

Atril

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
Atril is a fork of Evince.

Engrampa

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows you to: create and modify archives, view the content of an archive, view a file contained in an archive, extract files from the archive.
Engrampa is a fork of File-Roller.

MATE Terminal

MATE Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to perform the following actions: access a UNIX shell in the MATE environment, run any application that is designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xterm terminals.
MATE Terminal features the ability to use multiple terminals in a single window (tabs) and profiles support.
MATE Terminal is a fork of GNOME Terminal.

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  4. As a long time Windows XP/7 user, I think this looks great. I’ll be setting up a VM to try this on, hopefully it’ll be as great as it looks!

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  5. Good job. All looks nice and “classic”. Don’t stop! I’am going to stop use Linux, if such nice/classic environment will disappeared.

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  7. Antes que nada, una agradecimiento por darle un soplo de vida a nuestro amado gnome 2.x. Habemos muchos usuarios que no estamos muy seguros de los pasos que ha tomado gnome 3. Tal vez nos podran llamar anticuados, pero la verdad es que proyectos como MATE hacen que el free software y el opensource siga siendo lo mejor del mundo.

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  8. I do not understand why is the need to reinvent the wheel.

    KDE works well for Traditional Desktop Enviorment . just change to desktop view.

    And there are trillion Picture viewrs , Editors , Terminal emulators out there , why is the need to re-ivent the wheel , can you explain?

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    • v3ss,
      Please note that there is more than one type of wheel in use in the world. New ones are being invented all the time. Sorry if they all look the same to you.

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        • Absolutely!! I imagine the original poster is a KDE fan-boi – well, ‘to me’, KDE looks like something that kids would be using in kindergarten or first grade. Always has, always will. And I imagine a fair number of people happen to prefer the “classic” style (withOUT having to change anything to get it), otherwise we’d never be on this page now would we?

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          • So i will rephrase the question.

            KDE is a Desktop Environment + A LOT OF APPLICATIONS + some other stuff.

            When you use KDE on windows, you use just the applications, of course.

            When i use KDE on MATE Desktop Environment, i use just the applications (KDE ones, programmed with kdelibs).

            For instance, what is the MATE music player ? I guess it is … Amarok ? Clementine ? Juk ? You see, all kde (Qt) applications.

            So, why to reinvent a whell ? I know the answer, of course, because MATE is a DE, so it will have a window manager + a bunch of applications.

            I do not like the PLASMA Desktop too much. Really, i think it is buggy, and i use ALWAYS. If Mate can give me an environment for my KDE applications, that are FAR SUPERIOR from the GNOME equivalents, for example, then thats OK for me, i will use for sure. I just dont know the reason to implement ANOTHER simple text editor.

        • I don’t think the classic gnome 2 altepps (bonobo, corba based) are easy for an KDE 3 software to use. But if you don’t fear mocking around there’s a dbus branch of the central library (panel applet something) in the gnome git (gnome-panel module) that seems to be targeted at gnome 3 but should work with gnome 2.x with minimal fixing. And then it shouldn’t be too hard to write a dbus + socket based wrapper for kde

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          • KDE is just not working for me. Too eavy and slow for my computer, too tricky to use for my needs.

            And also …
            UNITY is another weel
            GNOME3 is another weel
            WIN8 has a new weel.
            Tablets and smartphone again have different weels.

            It seems to me nobody is happy with 1 single choice. That’s the power of open source. you can choose what kind of stuff to run on your devices.

    • This is not a re-invention. First the idea of Linux is it can run on soda machine dispenser (Can run on any and use/need less resources than anything else). Gnome went from 2 to 3. KDE continues (along with Gnome 3) to require more hardware resources to run their products. In the the server world we do not have video hardware nor are we going to spend the money on swoopier video cards just to run a simple desktop environment (not the purpose of servers), which here comes gnome 2. Simple desktop environment requires little resources. Well Gnome (as said before) dropped #2 for a horrible clunky resource hog #3. Mate is the continuation of Gnome 2. So it is not a reinvention, more like a continued support.

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  9. Really perfect. We should create “The Desktop they MATE” :-D

    I suppose it would be a good idea to “professional” mate. I mean for example more details in caja, or more details by copy files (e.g. on windows8).
    So that mate goes from “gnome2 user” to “gnome professional user”…

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  10. Keep up the good work , but please fix the MEDIA PLAYER keys in the applications (RhythmBox and Banshee are broken… the media keys do nothing, but I can use the volume control in all the applications. dbus shows the keys are pressed… )

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  12. I install linux mint with MATE for few days ago in Vbox.. after that yeah.. I absolutly remove my ubuntu to install permanent on my desktop. very stable.. no crash or anything can make stuck with new desktop. thanks for the great job mate..

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  17. Olle esta software tiena que estar soportado con BSD porque siempre que ejecuto un systema de BSD me cuedo atorado con [...] KDE o Gnome, Lla estoy cansado de teter que usar esa [...]. les pido al los develadores que aguan una version para el SO de BSD, Me encanta Linux pero tengo que usar BSD para poder instalar otra machina parra poder tener una firewall para protejer un systema connectado. gracias por leer. de saludos de -unkxi

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  21. Excelente, después de instalar Linux Mint con este escritorio ya me olvidé de Ubuntu; la practicidad de Gnome 2 es lo que yo creo que la mayoría buscamos y MATE lo logra a la perfección

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    • Do you have some kind of magic ball? Otherwise how dare you underwrite others knowledge – despite them being strangers to you.

      I spent several months with Gnome3 and Unity, both dissapointed me badly. This is not about trends, it’s about personal likings and freedom.

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    • If Installed Gnome3 on NVidia 5900XT 3D-Chipset, it just didn´t work. I really know that Linux-World is currently 2D with 3D optional. Now to Release a Desktop-Environment where an installed 3D-Graphics Support is an mandatory condition in in a a “free Software World” totally braindead. No Server-System comes with 3D-Hardware from Factory. 3D-Hardware is possible in the near Future always present, but whats is with the active Hardware today? Gnome3 is a nucklear strike against the Linux-World.

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      • Gnome shell is awkward to theme and they try their best to stop you changing the look and feel because they want to create a recognisable brand ala Mac OS. That’s not what I want in a DE

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  24. After Ubuntu with Unity came out I could tell my computer was slower. On the exact same paltform, one with Mint and Mate and one Ubuntu and Unity(both 12.04) I ran an all encompassing benchmark and Unity was 15% slower. Then I tried encoding some video where the program maxes out all 4 processor cores nearly 100%. Same exact thing, the Unity system was 15% slower. Additionally once I have my system booted in a browser and playing some mp3s etc., the Mate/gnome style system would be using about 600mb. The same with Unity was about exactly one gigabyte.

    So not only is a Unity ugly and a pain to navigate and use, it’s a resource hog. I can see that it has global searches, access to the whole system and some other integrated features but I have no need for that.

    So far I have loaded and set up 4 linux mint systems for friends, family and me. Before Ubuntu 11.04 those all would have been Ubuntu systems. Now they’re all Mint with Mate. Thank you developers at Mate.

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  26. Hello everyone,

    I use MATE on my debian system now. I really gave GNOME 3 a chance, I found it beautiful and fancy but not suiting my office work. Why change something that works so well as GNOME 2? Thanks for the great job!

    Stefan Ludwig

    (tomando un buen mate)

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  27. Solid, Fluid, Stable. The simplest and most stable DE so far, GNOME 2, rises again..

    Thank you very much. Now i have a copy of MATE in every Linux distribution !

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  28. Great job, MATE (and also Cinnamon) are perfect for people who still want a more classical desktop, and they are many people today.

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  31. I agree with the other posters: MATE has been a welcome addition for those of us who did not or could not run Gnome 3 or Unity. I tried KDE, XFCE, LXDE and they were either too heavy (KDE) or much too light and required too much configuration just to get sort of the same settings as I had with Gnome 2. Now MATE allow me to configure my desktop like I used to have it.

    Keep up the excellent work!

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  36. ¿Puedo reemplazar el manejador de ventanas “marco” por el xfwm4? ¿Si es así, cómo?

    Can I replace the windows manager “marco” by xfwm4″? If so, how?

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  38. For the users of MATE interested in R, octave and the such, I just released the intial port to Pluma of rgedit (https://sourceforge.net/projects/rgedit/), a plugin that tranforms gedit (and now Pluma) into a simple but efficient IDE primarily for R (but also octave and other interactive enrionments can be accomodated).

    Feedback and further testing is very welcome…

    Best,
    Dan

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  40. I would like to suggest an improvement for Engrampa and/or Caja.

    When I do right click on a compressed file I can “Extract here” but if current folder had files and there is no folder in the package, I will get the files mixed.

    I think that another option to extract these files in a new folder called with same name as package without filename extension (.tar.gz, .rar, .7z) would be more productive and time saver.

    Thanks.

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  41. Hi guys,
    I read all the comments about “why reinventing the wheel”, maybe I missed it, maybe it hasn’t been answered yet.

    Why do you had to fork all the applications from GNOME ?

    A file manager probably integrates tightly with the DE and Nautilus for GNOME 3 is probably not working on GNOME 2 compatible environment. However for Gedit/Evince/Terminal I don’t see a reason to fork. Can you elaborate on that?

    Regards,
    Alex

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  45. My main complaint with Unity and G3 was that when I editted video with greenscreen I had problems with the colors and not getting it right the videos would get messed up now with MATE I don’t have that problem

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  46. As a former KDE user, and a tinkerer in general, I can honestly say Mate is the continuation of the very best thing to ever happen to the DE world. I’ve never been completely comfortable with KDE, both due to resource useage, and because of stability issues dating back to the KDE3 days. Gnome3/Unity have also followed that same path, favoring eyecandy over stability, efficiency, and a clean, universal UI that can withstand the test of time. While I like eyecandy as much as the next guy, at the end of the day, I want my desktop to be fast, stable, and easy to navigate and configure–and only Mate currently gives me that.

    On another note, I’ve been staying apprised on the progress of the Mate desktop since Linux Mint Maya was released, and I’m still a bit confused as to how you’re going to ensure compatibiility, both with older apps and with the newer GTK3 apps. While multilib support is well known, I’m not sure that alone can help maintain compatiiblity with newer software technologies in the future. Do you have any ideas in that regard?

    Thanks in advance for the answser, and many thanks for rescuing Gnome 2 from the dustbin of computer history.

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  47. I give MATE a try because I dislike the looking of GNOME3, especially the open/save dialog (I like the GNOME2 folded/collapsed open/save dialog to save the time when it brings up). But actually I found that in MATE the open/save dialog is still the same style as in GNOME3.
    Is this problem can be solved by MATE developers? Thanks.

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  48. I’ve got Mate 1.6 running on Slackware 14.0 via Mate slackbuilds : http://mateslackbuilds.github.io/
    It runs and looks great. This is the first time I’ve gotten a stable mate/gnome experience on slackware since slackware dropped gnome in 2005. Great job to you and the mate slackbuilds people!

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