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MATE 1.10 released

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After 15 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.10. We would like to thank every MATE contributor and user.

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What’s new in MATE 1.10

The headline changes in MATE 1.10 are:

  • Every component of MATE can now be built with GTK2 and GTK3.
    • GTK3 support is still considered experimental
    • Arch Linux and Fedora currently offer alternative GTK3 builds.
  • [GSoC 2014] Caja now has an extension manager so plugin can be enabled/disabled at run-time.
  • [GSoC 2014] Atril now supports ePub.
  • [GSoC 2014] libmatemixer, an audio mixer library for MATE desktop, has been introduced.
    • Provides an abstract API allowing access to mixer functionality available in the PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS sound systems.
  • Static code analysis has resulted in many memory leaks being plugged.
  • Theme support has been expanded to GTK 3.8 to 3.16 including CSD and pop-over support.

The various components of MATE 1.10 are available for download here:

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Changelog

Here is a more detailed break down of what has changed.

mate-common

  • Added support for automake 1.15
  • Added support for lcov 1.11
  • Migrated to glib-gettexize if using GLib gettext
  • Check for appdata-xml.m4 with APPDATA_XML

mate-desktop

  • Migrated MateRRScreen, GnomeRRConfig and GnomeOutputInfo to GObject.
  • Added GObject Introspection
  • Added automatic-mnemonics key for GTK xsetting
  • Added MateAboutDialog class to have traditional about dialog with GTK3
  • Added MateColorButton class to have traditional color selection dialog with GTK3
  • Added org.mate.debug GSettings schema
  • Uses GDK_WINDOW_XID for inter-GTK compatibility
  • Updated mpaste for website change
  • Updated translations
  • Removed desktop-docs
  • Removed user guide
  • Removed libunique optional dependency
  • Assorted RANDR fixes

libmatekbd

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

libmatemixer

libmatemixer is a new mixer library for MATE desktop. It provides an abstract API allowing access to mixer functionality available in the PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS sound systems.

  • Initial release

libmateweather

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-icon-theme

  • Added more icons
  • Added new symbolic icons

Caja

  • Added a plugin manage to allow extensions to be enabled/disabled at runtime
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-polkit

  • Updated translations

Marco

  • Use zenity instead of mate-dialogs
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-settings-daemon

  • Migrated to MateRR* API changes.
  • Migrated media-keys plugin to libmatemixer
  • Updated translations
  • Removed GStreamer and made libmatemixer, libcanberra and PulseAudio optional dependencies

mate-session-manager

  • Disabled upower support by default, use --enable-upower if you need it
  • Updated translations

mate-menus

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-panel

  • Fixed the size of the showdesktop icon.
  • Fixed deprecated use of GDK pointer API (GTK3)
  • Migrated all GtkStyle to GtkStyleContext (GTK3)
  • Migrated gtk_rc_parse_string to GtkCssProvider (GTK3)
  • GDK_KEY_* is also used in Gtk+ 2.24.x
  • Removed the vbox from panel-addto as it is deprecated
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes
    • Check allocated size before creating the shadow pixbuf in the clock.
    • Disconnect show and deactivate menu signals before destroying the applet menu
    • Handling of SYSTEM_TRAY_CANCEL_MESSAGE
    • Correct implicit declaration of function of gdk_x11_set_sm_client_id
    • Added a gtkimage with the current pixbuf to button-widget
    • Use gtk icon cache instead of custom one

mate-backgrounds

  • Added Ubuntu MATE wallpapers without branding
  • Added new MATE-Stripes-Dark.png, MATE-Stripes-Light.png wallpapers

mate-themes

  • Added support for GTK 3.16, 3.14, 3.12, 3.10 and 3.8.
  • Added many improvements for MATE GTK3 applications
  • Added transition effects to buttons and menuitems when using GTK3
  • Added support for CSD applications
  • Added support for popovers
  • Enable window shadows for CSD applications
  • Enable regular icons for window controls
  • Disable use of symbolic icons
  • Use mate logo for spinner animation
  • Refactor GreenLaguna
  • Refactor ContrastHigh themes
  • TraditionalOKTest is installable with normal configure flags
  • Many other fixes and refinements

mate-notification-daemon

  • Assorted bug fixes
  • Updated translations

mate-control-center

  • Added option to configure titlebar buttons layout
  • Added support for metacity-theme-2.xml
  • Added support for office applications in Preferred Applications
  • Migrated to MateRR* API changes
  • Updated translations

mate-screensaver

  • Migrated to MateRR* API changes
  • Updated translations

mate-media

  • Removed PulseAudio dependency
  • Removed gst-mixer and gst-mixer-applet
  • Updated mate-volume-control:
    • Migrated from PulseAudio to libmatemixer
    • Allow selecting input and output connectors
    • Speaker test widget now contains a Close button
    • Device and stream lists are now sorted
    • Do not show icons when on a vertical panel
    • Allow clicking in the popup window
  • Updated translations

mate-power-manager

  • Added support for upower 0.99+
  • Updated translations
  • Removed udisks dependency

mate-system-monitor

  • Back ported improvements from GNOME System Monitor
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

Atril

  • Added epub support
  • Added xz compression support
  • Added rotate with CTRL+left and CTRL+right in presentation mode
  • Added support for bsdtar to the comics backend.
  • Added support pdf.xz files to the PDF backend.
  • Added support for external links to EvViewPresentation
  • Added EvBookmarks to handle internal document bookmarks
  • Added support for OCG State actions to the PDF backend
  • Added saving the zoom factor in default settings when sizing mode is free
  • Added png extension when saving images using drag & drop
  • Added timestamp parameter to SyncView
  • Added ini file for Caja extension
  • Added appdata file
  • Implemented document_links_find_link_page() in the PDF backend
  • Implemented document_links_find_link_page() in the djvu backend
  • Migrated to find_link_page() instead of find_link_dest() in get_dest_page()
  • Fixed remembering the current page when document is reloaded in presentation mode
  • Fixed resolving named destinations in the PDF backend
  • Fixed sidebar-thumbnails to connect to job finished signal before scheduling the job
  • Fixed drawing glyphs with transparency in the DVI backend
  • Fixed several security issues in the DVI backend
  • Fixed several accessibility issues.
  • Fixed segmentation faults and many memory leaks
  • Updated to poppler 0.16.0 API changes
  • Migrated to MateAboutDialog from libmate-desktop
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

caja-extensions

  • Added new ‘Set as wallpaper’ extension
  • Re-introduced the option to select send-to plugins to build
  • Updated translations

Engrampa

  • Added compressing of iso images and tar archives from the Caja menu
  • Added overwrite confirmation dialog when extracting files with drag & drop
  • Added keywords key to .desktop file
  • Added ini file for Caja extension
  • Added engrampa.appdata.xml
  • Fixed opening RAR files inside a RAR file
  • Fixed errors with some password protected files
  • Fixed loading of multi-volume RAR archives with 7zip
  • Fixed crash when clicking Cancel in Add Files
  • Fixed hyphen-as-minus-sign issues for engrampa.1 man page
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Removed support for Gtk+ < 2.24
  • Removed support for Glib < 2.32
  • Use Caja GSettings schema optionally
  • Use g_get_user_config_dir instead of hardcoded ~/.config/mate
  • Use GtkRecentAction objects to create the recent file choosers
  • Do not set the selected app as the system default
  • Do not set the “last output” dialog as modal to allow the user to resize it
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

Eye of MATE

  • Back ported improvements from Eye of GNOME
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-applets

  • Migrated to MateAboutDialog from libmate-desktop
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-netbook

  • Fixed Windows Picker applet forcibly changing Maximus settings
  • Migrated to MateAboutDialog from libmate-desktop
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-netspeed

  • Added network load graph made similar to MATE System Monitor graphs
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-sensors-applet

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-terminal

  • Migrated to common function in libmate-desktop
  • Updated translations

mate-user-share

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

mate-utils

  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

Mozo

  • Updated translations

Pluma

  • Migrated to MateAboutDialog from libmate-desktop
  • Updated translations
  • Assorted bug fixes

python-caja

  • Added About Extension button to the Extensions tab in Caja
  • Assorted bug fixes



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