Since MLED are based on slackware installation, updating stable packages will keep your XFCE-MLED installation

Here are some further notes coming from a pristine user account:

0) Only *two* folders (Desktop and Documents) are being created;

1) The bottom panel does *not* expand neatly as to align the workspace switchers with the clock: http://i.imgur.com/yvhLSeI.png

2) "Preferred Applications" > "Mail Reader" do *not* permit selecting Thunderbird: http://i.imgur.com/g27LWgX.png

3) "Preferred Applications" > "Video Player" is set to "Enqueue in SMPlayer": http://i.imgur.com/yT3eBwp.png

4) "Preferred Applications" > "File Manager" is set to "Audio Tag Editor".

5) "Control Center" > "Pop-Up Notification" > "Theme" is set to "Nodoka" -- I think this theme *isn't* installed, or is it?

s09:
on my system, thunderbird and MPlayer are selected by default for email and video player, but those can be changed easily, so it's not a big problem.

about nodoka, it's part of mate-notification-daemon package

i don't know about the panel, since by default, MATE comes with 2 panels (top and bottom). It seems kikinovac had adjusted the configuration to use gnome-main-menu instead of MATE's default.

1. I never liked Xfce's default way to stuff your home directory with Documents/, Images/, Videos/, Downloads/ and stuff like this. IMHO, it's up to the user to create these. Some of my users - in fact most of them - have very specific ways to organize their home directory.

2. I've just updated the user-settings-mate package, with some minor corrections to the default configuration. Can you test again please ? Upgrade user-settings-mate, add a dummy user, log in as dummy user, see what the desktop looks like?

I'd be curious to hear back from users who have attempted a clean installation from scratch, following the Installation Guide.

BTW, I've just updated the french translation of the MLED pages:

• Project page
• Installation Guide
• FAQ

How to upgrade? I get the following:

@kikinovak,

You forgot to delete the old user-settings-mate package in the repository. As a consequence, it seems that slackpkg can not detect the updated package.

@kikinovak:
What is the content of config.tar.bz2 in user-settings-mate source?
i tried to extract them on my home dir and when i restarted MATE, the panels got screwed up.

PS: I'm not using your MLED, so this desktop don't have the same config as yours. I'm just curious what changes you added into user-settings-mate package.

This is strange, since user-settings-mate only installs stuff in /etc/skel, so existing users cannot be affected. The config.tar.bz2 archive contains a compressed .config directory with the default desktop configuration.

@kikinovak

i didn't build the package, i just extract the source out of curiosity and i forgot to put the output to another directory rather than my home dir

i noticed that you removed the top panel and only use the bottom panel along with gnome-main-menu.

I can't add the gnome-main-menu to the MATE panel.

Warning: I don't have a full Slackware 14.1 32bits (I installed all packages in l/ but left some directories like xfce/ emacs/)

I've installed all the mate packages (base and extra) from MSB except mate-calculator.

I've deleted the following directories in my $HOME: .config .cache .local (I've actually saved them by renaming them bkp_something). I've installed the MLED user-settings-mate package.

When I reboot, I have the default MATE desktop (so it doesn't look like MLED configuration is taken into account even when I delete .config directory). Then I try to add Gnome Main Menu in the panel. Nothing happens when I press the "Add" button. However, when I check dconf, I see that a new object_0 with applet_iid "GNOMEMainMenuFactory::GNOMEMainMenu" has been added in org.mate.panel.objects

Any clues about what I'm doing wrong (missing package??).

I just performed a clean MLED/MATE installation for a client, and except the odd md5sum download error which I corrected manually, everything went perfectly. I'm tempted to say that it's a bit like the mother distribution: only full installations are supported. Did you migrate using the README_MATE.txt HOWTO? Probably the one bit you skipped came back to bite you.

1. Ouch !

2. Yes, I'm only using the bottom panel with gnome-main-menu. I liked the looks of openSUSE 11.4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, with the famous Slab menu, so I went for something similar.

The UI looks old to me
Perhaps it was because i didn't install your icon themes, so it's like the plain panel

Anyway, congrats on MLED project. You can help us on MSB by reporting any bugs found :-)

I experienced some weird checksum errors with slackpkg. After some experience, I found the culprit: mismatching timestamps on packages metadata and the packages themselves. So I built fresh metadata information from scratch and corrected everything. Unfortunately I only have FTP access to the main mirror, no rsync. Expect things to return to normal later this afternoon.