Call for Testers: MATE 1.17
 

Hi Everyone

MATE 1.18 is just around the corners. In order to get the best release ever, please help on testing MATE 1.17 development snapshot. All the changes are now merged into master branch.

In short, there are some changes in the upcoming MATE 1.18 release:
- 6 new packages added: gtksourceview3, glade, libunique3, libpeas, mate-calc, and caja-actions
- 3 packages removed: galculator, gtksourceview, pygtksourceview
- It's all GTK+3 build, no more GTK+2/3 mix build
- HELP files are now provided, but yelp will not be included (due to webkit requirement which is takes too long to build). Users might want to install yelp via SBo project or via testing directory.

Please test them and let me know if there are some bugs or if you have suggestions for this project.

NOTE: The binary packages in http://slackware.uk/msb/current/1.17/ are not yet updated to the latest snapshots yet, but it should be usable for now.

Hi Willy,

Thanks for your work on that.

One question and one request:
1) In Slint pluma is the default text editor (version 1.16.0 from Salix repos at time of writing) and I have noted here that it needs gtksourceview and pygtksourceview. Does this change in 1.17?

2) Please let us know when http://slackware.uk/msb/current/1.17/ will be updated. I am a bit lazy and then testing Mate 1.17 in Slint-14.2 will hopefully be possible just adding the repo in slapt-getrc and running "slapt-get --install-set msb" or something like that.

1. Yes, pluma will require gtksourceview3 since everything is now GTK+3 based and for the plugins, they are now migrated to libpeas so it was added in this cycle as well.

2. I will try to rebuilt all of them in the next 1-2 days. I will put a post on this thread when i have done it.

Thanks

@didier:
OK, it's now pushed

So far, so good!
 

Thanks Willy, that was fast.

Here is what I did (in Slint64-14.2 with all patches applied and few additional packages):

1. Add these lines to /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc:
   Code:

   ---

   # The msb current repository
SOURCE=http://slackware.uk/msb/current/1.17/x86_64/:PREFERRED

   ---

2. Run:
   Code:

   ---

   slapt-get -u
slapt-get --add-keys
slapt-get --install-set deps
slapt-get --install-set base
slapt-get --install-set extra

   ---

3. logout (back to lxdm, in runlevel 4)
4. In lxdm, start MATE

Please find attached a pic of Slint64-14.2 running your MATE 1.17 and a report about installed/upgraded packages.

It looks like you did it right, congrats!

Only caveat: opening a remote URL (non anonymous FTP) starts Audacious. Maybe a wrong default app setting? This not withstanding I could access the remote repo with Caja. EDIT: solved just changing:
System => Preferences => Personal => Preferred Applications => File Manager from Audacious to Caja. Although I tend to prefer PCManFM :D

This is just a first look, will play with it in the coming days. If you need specific tests, just ask.

installed it 2h ago, no compilation issues, no issues in using it so far. Will report back after a few more hours / days of usage.

Yes, the default setting for file-manager will be audacious, not caja
this is a known issue for some time. I will see if i can override this settings in gschema.

thanks for reminding me.

@Didier:

I think i have fixed it here:
https://github.com/mateslackbuilds/m...3ce9c0e2c504f9

please note that it will only work with new user. Existing user will not be affected

2 issues so far:
- I am using dual monitor setup. Going to the Display Settings and moving the monitors to the correct layout yields graphical artifacts
- adding applications via right click to the panel (as shortcuts) makes the whole panel unresponsive (ctrl-alt-backspace and restart is ok, shortcuts are working after that)

btw File Manager preset on mine was not audacious. It was either empty or Caja, sorry I cannot remember.

Hi Desertwulf
- Since i don't use dual monitor setup, i'm afraid it's up to upstream to fix. But i will help to report it to upstream.
- Your second issue was a known issue for some time: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/305

I cloned the repo, built, removed and installed anew mate-desktop. Works as expected by the specification, thanks.

Just FYI, i have rebuilt the mate-desktop package (but i didn't bump the build number) and uploaded the binary package to the usual repository so that next Slackware Live ISO will use the updated build that have that fix.

MATE 1.18.0 is now out.
Github/GitLab sources are up to date and i will rebuilt binary packages as soon as possible.

I was just about to say that - I skipped 1.17 to test on my Slackware VM because of that.

FYI a blog post with a video by Frederic Bezies (in french): http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/?p=15829