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Some notes for the next releases. This is not a brainstorm page. Please use the forum or the IRC chat to ask for new features.

Release 1.24

  • Migrate remaining projects from dbus-glib to GDBus

  • caja: add option to show thumbnails in listview (#153)

  • mate-applets: make command applet run commands asynchronously (#163)

  • mate-panel: fix remaining vertical panel issues (#157)

  • pluma: port Python plugins to Python 3

Release 1.22

  • Move all help/guide translations to Transifex

  • Improve Metacity support

  • marco: add support for metacity-theme-3.xml format (#105)

  • mate-menus: port to GObject introspection, drop static Python bindings (#59)

  • mozo: port to Python 3 and GI package of mate-menus (#39)

  • python-caja: add Python 3 compatibility (#30)

Future releases

  • atril: use distro-packaged synctex library

  • caja: add option to drag a tab to create a new window (#454)

  • caja: add option to turn off generic icons in listview (#26)

  • engrampa: add libarchive support (#52)

  • mate-applets: add mount point or device blacklist for drivemount applet (#24)

  • mate-applets: option to show several cores and processors in one cpufreq applet instance (#50)

  • mate-applets: make cpufreq applet work with intel_pstate driver (#173)

  • mate-control-center: cache thumbnails for desktop backgrounds in appearance properties

  • mate-menus: option to enable/disable preferences categories (#35)

  • mate-session-manager: in properties dialog, show running apps that can/will be saved on exit (#113)

  • pluma: add plugin to show (and maybe change) line endings type (#50)

  • Update caja integration with tracker search engine tracker dev documentation - Nautilus git log

  • Add support for AccountsService

  • Complete support for systemd-logind

  • Add support for Wayland

  • Consider dropping libmatekbd for libgnomekbd

  • Consider dropping libmateweather for libgweather

Old releases

Release 1.20

Released on February 7, 2018. Announcement here.

  • Bump minimum required GTK+3 version to 3.22

  • Bump minimum required GLib version to 2.50

  • Add support for HiDPI

  • ~~Migrate to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks for storing bookmarks~~

  • atril: implement caret navigation (#281)

  • marco: add DRI3/Present support (#326)

  • marco: implement corner windows tiling (#359)

  • marco: support multimonitor keybindings (#371)

  • mate-desktop: switch mate-about to GtkAboutDialog and drop MateAboutDialog (#282)

  • mate-desktop: support for Global Menu providers such as vala-panel-appmenu

  • mate-panel: improve StatusNotifierItem (SNI) support

  • mate-panel: improve support for in-process applets

  • mate-polkit: drop unused polkitgtkmate library (#39)

  • mate-sensors-applet: add ability to hide temperature units (#22)

  • mate-terminal: add Solarized themes from gnome-terminal (#151)

  • mate-terminal: bump minimum required VTE version to 0.46 (#233)

Release 1.18

Released on March 13, 2017. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • Migrate all remaining packages to GTK+3 and require version 3.14

  • Complete migration from libunique to GtkApplication

  • caja: make folder color work in list view (#410)

  • eom: port plugin system and plugins to libpeas (#71)

  • mate-control-center: add libinput support (#133)

  • mate-settings-daemon: add libinput support (#160)

  • mate-system-monitor: add pkexec support (#85)

  • pluma: port plugin system and plugins to libpeas (#147)

Release 1.16

Released on September 21, 2016. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • engrampa: move to GTK+3 (#140)

  • mate-notification-daemon: move to GTK+3 (#102)

  • mate-polkit: move to GTK+3 (#28)

  • mate-session-manager: move to GTK+3 (#121)

  • mate-terminal: move to GTK+3 (#118)

Release 1.14

Released on April 8, 2016. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • caja: allow managing each python extension separately (#521, python-caja #24)

  • mate-control-center: make all three window focus modes selectable (marco #140)

  • mate-control-center: move mate-preferences-categories.menu tomate-menus (#207)

  • mate-panel: ability to change icon sizes for menubar and menu items (#406)

  • mate-settings-daemon: add the ability to disable volume/brightness osd (#13)

  • mate-system-monitor: move to GTK+3 (#74)

  • mate-system-monitor: run gksu binary instead of loading libgksu2.so (which is GTK+2 only) (#81)

  • mate-terminal: support VTE 2.91 API in GTK+3 build (#66)

  • mate-themes: compatibility with GTK+ 3.20 for all themes (#101)

  • mozo: move to GTK+3

  • Merge mate-netspeed into mate-applets (mate-applets #167)

  • Drop MateConf migration scripts

Release 1.12

Released on November 5, 2015. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • atril: use distro-packaged MathJax library (#158)

  • marco: pointer window placement (#123)

  • mate-utils: add timestamp to screenshot filename (#115)

  • Switch to org.gnome.SessionManager name on DBus

  • Move user guide to separate project

  • Add option to toggle GTK+3 overlay scrolling

  • Improve touchpad support

Release 1.10

Released on June 11, 2015. Announcement here. Old status page.

Release 1.8

Released on March 4, 2014. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • caja: Add option to use IEC units instead of SI units

  • caja: Add “Open parent location” option in context menu in search view

  • engrampa: Show always the “extract to” action in caja extension

  • eom: Add shuffle mode in slideshow

  • eom: Migration to lcms2 (#25)

  • marco: Add window snapping (#21)

  • mate-applets: Add undo functionality to sticky note applet (#17)

  • mate-applets: New command applet

  • mate-control-center: Add support for Metacity as window manager

  • mate-control-center: Add support for 'artist' tag in xml backgrounds files

  • mate-desktop: Add user guide

  • mate-desktop: Add mpaste tool

  • mate-media: Middle click on applet toggles mute state

  • mate-screensaver: Show date and time in lock dialog

  • Replace mate-doc-utils with yelp-tools (#2)

  • Drop libmatekeyring/mate-keyring for libsecret/gnome-keyring

  • Drop libmatewnck for libwnck

  • Drop mucharmap for gucharmapcommit

  • Move caja extensions tocaja-extensions package

  • Drop mate-bluetooth forblueman (adding support for Bluez5)

Release 1.6

Released on April 2, 2013. Announcement here. Old status page.

  • Fix deprecations in core packages (Deprecated code)

  • Caja improvements

    • Add support for freedesktop.org File Manager DBus Interface (#3)

    • Fix back vs parent directory selection (#19)

  • Atril improvements

  • Panel improvements

    • Add–run-dialog option

    • Window list: middle click button to close window (6d3058da)

  • Control center improvements

    • Add option to enable compositing manager and fast alt-tab

    • Set metacity theme if compiz or metacity are running

    • Use same GNOME proxy settings in gsettings-desktop-schemas

  • Window manager improvements

    • Add option to open new windows on the center of the screen

  • Calc improvements

    • Update to newest non-Vala gcalctool

    • Add buttons to support inverse trig functions (#6)

  • Add option(s) to show notifications only on one screen (#4)

  • Themes improvement

    • Add GTK3 support for most themes

  • Add support for mpris2 to mate-settings-daemon (#7, 9384398)

  • Fix all incorrect FSF addresses

  • Replace MateConf with GSettings

  • Replace MateCorba with DBus

  • Initial support for systemd-logind

  • Replace MateVfs with GIO

  • Replace libmatenotify with libnotify

  • Remove libmateui (unused), libmatecanvas (unused), libmatecomponent and libmatecomponentui (replace with dbus)

  • Remove libmate (mate-open replaced with gvfs-open, gsettings schemas moved to mate-desktop package)

  • Support opening a remote terminal in mate-file-manager-open-terminal (#2)

  • Move mixer applet to mate-media package (#22)

  • Sync translations

  • Update .desktop files to indicate MATE variants.

Release 1.4

Released on July 30, 2012. Announcement here.

  • Fix remaining applications inMate-Extra

    • mate-character-map ported perberos

    • mate-disk-utility removed stefano-k

    • mate-policy-kit removed Amanas

  • Fix mate-keyring (#2) stefano-k

  • Add caja-dropbox package

  • Caja improvements

    • Restore toggle button for button and text-based location bar (#2) stefano-k

    • Add the ability to open bookmarks in the places side pane via the enter and space keys Amanas

  • mate-notification-daemon

    • New themes: coco, nodoka stefano-k

    • Fix big icons issue (#3) stefano-k

  • Fix mate-indicator-applet (not all distros have the required dependencies)

    • Remove indicator-applet-session Amanas

  • Fork gnome-user-share (as mate-user-share) (#3) Amanas

  • Fork libwnck (as libmatewnck) stefano-k

  • Remove evolution dependency from caja-sendto and create a generic email plugin (#13) stefano-k

  • mate-media: remove unworking mate-sound-recorder stefano-k

  • mate-screensaver: add GDM support for user switch stefano-k

  • Add an option to marco to enable fast alt-tabbing when compositing is enabled (#4) Amanas

  • mate-icon-theme-faenza Rowen_Stipe

  • Translations sync with transifex stefano-k, Amanas

Release 1.2

Released on April 16, 2012. Announcement here.

  • Fix all about windows with new MATE website Amanas

  • Fix some remaining applications inMate-Extra

    • mate-menu-editor78 stefano-k

    • python-caja stefano-k

  • Port other missing applications

    • caja-gksu76 stefano-k

    • caja-image-converter stefano-k

  • Integration with freedesktop (#44353, commit) nmarques

  • Improve Caja stability

    • Import all useful patches from nautilus stefano-k

  • Improve mate-panel stability