The panel is broken in 1.28.2 MATE and 1.26.2 MATE does not work with the CVE patches that are in the April 10 image and newer.
Bugzilla has been created.
It would have been nice if you had linked your bug….
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222749
Nevertheless it looks like a duplicate bug which was already catched by QA:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222583
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Hello everyone,
maybe it will help if version 1.28.1 of mate-panel is rolled out. I have the same problem.
See here at Github:
We couldn’t solve the problem for Tumbleweed yet, but in the thread it is also said that the problem was fixed with the version of mate-panel 1.28.1.
Currently version 1.28.0 is in the package sources.
Greetings
snydar
Today is TW day, running MATE DE, after running a “246 package” upgrade, logging out and back in a number of applets are shown to have “quit unexpectedly.” I shut down and cold booted, same problem.
Error window offering “reload” flashes the window and brings another one, and back to the first one. I found the MATE version is 1.28.2 . . . still seems to be some problems??
No clock showing is one of the more critical applets to be missing.
Hello and yes, mate-desktop is version 1.28.2.
mate-panel 1.28.0. I assume that it will be fixed with the next update to 1.28.1 (mate-panel). See link above.
Alrighty, thanks for the hint . . . I sort of scanned the linked thread, very long, no obvious conclusions . . . ??
When do we assume that the next mate-panel version will be in the tubes??
The link said that the bug was fixed with version 1.28.1 for the mate-panel. I cannot say when this will be rolled out. This is my first day here in this forum 
But I’m here because of the bug.
Thanks for stopping by . . . I am a long time user of MATE, but it does seem like an under-utilized DE in the grand scheme of linux users?
Maybe with OpenSuse. But on the whole, I think it will be gladly accepted. MATE is always my first choice when I install it on older computers. Otherwise I use Cinnamon. But that’s the nice thing about Linux, you can use whatever you want
If you click on System > About MATE - we have 1.28.2 in Tumbleweed. It is not fixed in 1.28.2.
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Yes, but look at post #5.
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Yep, I’m a big fan of MATE, with occasional issues that cause problems.
Like I discovered that after suspending, reviving back to the desktop did not show Firefox open in the toolbar, so I could only open a new page . . . losing all of my working tabs-- rendering the desktop as not so usable.
Had to reboot into tomorrow’s Sid system to get Firefox to show all of my many tabs. So I might have to find that bug report and add my name to it??? : - 0
Many applets are currently broken. For example:
Clock, Desktop switcher, Show Desktop, Notifications, Window list…
Maybe you can switch with Alt+Tab back to Firefox?
Thanks for the hint. I’m now away from that machine, but I’ll check it as far as keyboard moves goes. The “joy” of this is that I have other systems to choose from on that machine.
I would say that right now just about all of the applets are broke down, except seemingly “system update checker”???
Good morning, system update checker still seems to be working.
Does that mean that more applets have since dropped out?? That was one of the few that was still working yesterday . . . .
I don’t think so. I just added “system update checker” to the panel and after a restart it was still there.
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Looks like Larry R found the solution and posted it on the bug report . . . did bring my mate-panel applets back online.
LLR3:~ # zypper in dconf-editor
I’m still getting an error notification from one applet when I boot TW . . . on the bug report there was a reply about editing “org.mate.applets.GvcApplet.mate-panel-applet.desktop” to remove the “desktop” . . . . But when I navi’d there to the file I can’t seem to edit it in the GUI . . . . Does this have to be done in the Terminal as root, or I could sudo it . . . ??
Haven’t done this type of move in awhile, is it something like “sudo nano org.mate.applets.GvcApplet.mate-panel-applet.desktop > org.mate.applets.GvcApplet.mate-panel-applet” . . . to get that edited???
Hi, that’s how I did it:
But be careful, caja is then opened with root rights.
su
caja
Then delete the .desktop extension from the file.
/usr/share/mate-panel/applets/org.mate.applets.GvcApplet.mate-panel-applet.desktop
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