GTK+ 3.16 support and a ton of other stuff

Jun 10, 2015 07:01 GMT  ·  By

The MATE desktop environment is getting a major update, and it will land soon in repositories everywhere. We take a closer at what's new with MATE 1.10 to see what the features to be implemented are.

MATE has been successfully implemented in a number of famous operating systems such as Linux Mint Mate or Ubuntu MATE, so there are quite a few users out there that want to get this major update as soon as possible. It won't happen too soon for Ubuntu MATE, but the next edition of Linux Mint, 17.2, should incorporate all these changes and various improvements.

An update for the desktop environment is a big deal because most of the modifications made will be spotted by users immediately. Sure enough, most of the stuff is done under the hood, but this is what users see when they open a Linux distro. There are many moving components and developers need to make sure that don't break anything. This is why the Linux Mint guys are waiting so long to push the new MATE 1.10.

MATE 1.10 is a very big update

As it was to be expected, the latest MATE comes with an impressive list of changes, although it's easy to see that many of them are just fixes and other small modifications. Nonetheless, stuff like GTK+ 3.16 support won't go unnoticed.

According to the changelog, Caja now comes with a new extension manager that allows users to enable plugins at startup, Atril now has support for the EPUB format, the audio mixer library for MATE desktop libmatemixer has been added, numerous memory leaks have been plugged, new symbolic icons have been added, "upower" is no longer supported by default, Ubuntu MATE wallpapers without branding have been added, an option to configure titlebar buttons layout has been implemented, and the PulseAudio dependency has been removed.

These are just a few changes made to MATE 1.10. Please make sure that you check the entire changelog by pressing on the button at the end to the article. You can also download MATE 1.10 right now from Softpedia, but this is just the source package.

MATE 1.10 Full Changelog