MATE (desktop environment)

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MATE
DevelopersClement Lefebvre, Perberos, Stefano Karapetsas, et al.[1]
Initial releaseAugust 19, 2011; 14 years ago (2011-08-19)
Repository
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Written inC[2]
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    Operating systemUnix-like, Unix
    TypeDesktop environment
    LicenseGPLv2+, LGPLv2+
    Websitemate-desktop.org

    MATE (/ˈmɑːteɪ/ MAH-tay)[3] 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.[4][5]

    Name

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    MATE is named after the South American plant yerba mate and tea made from the herb, mate.[3] The name is stylized in all capital letters to follow the nomenclature of other Free Software desktop environments like KDE Plasma and LXDE. The recursive backronym "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" was subsequently adopted by most of the MATE community, again in the spirit of Free Software like GNU ("GNU's Not Unix!").[6] The use of a new name, instead of GNOME, avoids naming conflicts with GNOME components.[6]

    History

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    Perberos, an Argentine user of Arch Linux, started the MATE project[7] to fork and continue GNOME 2 in response to the negative reception of GNOME 3, which had replaced its traditional taskbar (GNOME Panel) with GNOME Shell. MATE aims to maintain and continue the latest GNOME 2 code base, frameworks, and core applications.[8][9][10]

    MATE was initially announced for Debian on November 8, 2013, at its official website.[11]

    MATE became an official Arch Linux community package in January 2014.[12]

    Component applications

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    See also: List of GTK applications
    Showing a main component of "Caja" file-manager

    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]

    MATE applications
    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
    Screenshot of Caja file manager: v.1.26
    Caja-about, version 1.26

    Development

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    Screenshot of MATE 1.10, GTK3 version, on Manjaro Linux

    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[17] and diff viewing for file replacements.[18] MATE 1.6 removes some deprecated libraries, moving from mate-conf (a fork of GConf) to GSettings, and from mate-corba (a fork of GNOME's Bonobo) to D-Bus.

    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 HiDPI was added and the GTK version got increased to 3.22. The MATE 1.22 release migrated many programs from Python 2 to Python 3 and from dbus-glib to GDBus. In an upcoming version, support for Wayland will be added.[19] MATE 1.28.2 had greater support for Wayland, but did not provide a completely seamless fully native Wayland session yet.[20]

    Release history

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    Screenshot of a PC-BSD 10.1.2 desktop (MATE) with dual monitor (dual head, pivot). The running free and open-source (FOSS) programs are: GIMP, OpenShot Video Editor, file manager, Eric Python development IDE. Also shown: Minecraft 1.8.7 (with "Forge" mods).

    Note that between each release, development versions are tagged with odd-numbered version numbers. These are not announced as official releases.

    Date Version
    2011-06-18 Announced at Arch Linux forum[21]
    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[22]

    Adoption

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    The MATE website lists 27 Linux distributions and 5 Unix-like operating systems that support the MATE desktop environment.[23]

    It is available on the official repositories of only 22 of those Linux distributions.[24]

    Reception

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    MATE was praised for having a classic feel, with an "incredibly sharp" default theme and icon pack.[25] In addition, it was praised for being lightweight within the Ubuntu MATE operating system, a version of the Ubuntu desktop that uses MATE as its primary desktop environment.[26]

    MATE has been praised for it's speed and optimization being used dominantly on older machines. It has also been praised for it's massive theming capabilities allowing users to also install themes.[27]

    The inclusion of GNOME Shell in GNOME 3 was a controversial decision.[28] The users that preferred GNOME 2 have found MATE to be much more reliable for old-school users.[29]

    Beginner users have praised the simplicity of MATE coming from it's similarities with the Microsoft Windows operating system, the MATE Welcome app and other factors.[30]

    See also

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