X11:MATE

[ketheriel]

Dear people,

I currently maintain the X11:MATE and X11:MATE:Factory repositories and been working with upstream for a proper deployment; unfortunately due to the general situation of my country and responsibilities that I hold (to which I can not fault), I might not be able to maintain it for long and the path is taking me to Marseilles for a 5 year contract in a position to which I won’t have much internet access, if any at all.

Any takers for the repository feel free to step forward, I have till 7th of January to properly train you and introduce you to people who can help you with MATE; At least you should have some knowledge of:

• writing spec files;
• bash scripting;
• building software / autotools

I can provide proper OBS training in a few hours of your spare time. Feel free to contact me.

NM

[hillwood]

If no one to maintain them , I can to do it . But only me to do it that will be difficult.

[ketheriel]

@hillwood

If no one to maintain them , I can to do it . But only me to do it that will be difficult.

The repository holds the latest available releases and all the integration work has been done; There is only one thing that can be improved, the MIME types when you have a parallel install with GNOME for example. But this isn’t really mandatory to work. Hibernation/Suspend issues have been fixed and there’s only some residual fixes (all upstream related) that will be fixed during next updates.

This to say, the only work require is to update packages, neat stuff huh ?

Thanks for stepping up; You have my help for as long as I can assist (first week of January). I’m going to email Stefano and ask him to help you. MATE upstream is a small team of awesome people, you will love the experience

Wir stehen mann für mann!

[stefanok]

I’ll be happy to help in maintaining openSUSE packages for MATE with my upstream knowledge.

[rahim123]

Did this ever get sorted out? It would be sad to lose the MATE repo for openSUSE. MATE is a really important project for all distributions, in my opinion.

One other issue with X11:MATE, it seems that there should be a “MATE:stable” repo for the current stable 1.4 release and for the upcoming stable 1.6 release when 1.7 development starts. Many users won’t want to run a development version, which is currently the only option.

Thanks!

[stefanok]

@rahim123

Did this ever get sorted out? It would be sad to lose the MATE repo for openSUSE. MATE is a really important project for all distributions, in my opinion.Thanks!

We found some people and we’re continuing to package MATE. You are welcome if you want to help!

@rahim123

One other issue with X11:MATE, it seems that there should be a “MATE:stable” repo for the current stable 1.4 release and for the upcoming stable 1.6 release when 1.7 development starts. Many users won’t want to run a development version, which is currently the only option.

This is true, but MATE 1.6 will be released soon (I hope in March), so I think it’s better if we focus our effort to package 1.5/1.6 as start.

[rahim123]

@stefanok

We found some people and we’re continuing to package MATE. You are welcome if you want to help!

This is true, but MATE 1.6 will be released soon (I hope in March), so I think it’s better if we focus our effort to package 1.5/1.6 as start.

Thanks very much for the reply. I’m really looking forward to seeing Mate as a top-class choice for openSUSE.

Can I ask what is the status of MDM for openSUSE? I would love to see it.

[rahim123]

[sorry, deleted]

[rahim123]

Not sure if the contact email addresses in bugzilla are up to date, so I wanted to link to a weird bug I found and reported:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806084

Thanks!

[HackLover]

Hi there!

I have being used openSUSE 12.1 a long time with Gnome 3 but there was too many problems with it (especially tracker-store process was hardly loading the CPU (about 100%) and I decided to try some other distro.
Now I want to try openSUSE again but with MATE as only one DE. Can I install it by just installing openSUSE without graphical desktop and next to add the MATE repository and install MATE?
Thanks

[ericgearhart]

@HackLover

Now I want to try openSUSE again but with MATE as only one DE. Can I install it by just installing openSUSE without graphical desktop and next to add the MATE repository and install MATE?

If you’re pretty handy with the Linux CLI this is entirely doable… I’m tempted to try out MATE in this same way honestly.

Once you get OpenSUSE installed and you’re logged in to a root console, this should pull down the MATE “once click installer” and install MATE:

/sbin/OCICLI http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/MATE/Tumbleweed/mate-desktop.ymp

(you can find the YMP links here: Portal:MATE - openSUSE Wiki)

[HackLover]

@ericgearhart

If you’re pretty handy with the Linux CLI this is entirely doable… I’m tempted to try out MATE in this same way honestly.

Once you get OpenSUSE installed and you’re logged in to a root console, this should pull down the MATE “once click installer” and install MATE:

/sbin/OCICLI http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/MATE/Tumbleweed/mate-desktop.ymp

(you can find the YMP links here: Portal:MATE - openSUSE Wiki)

Well I haven’t meant something like this; will

zypper -ar <repo>

give the same result (because I’m familiar with the zypper CLI)?
And why the Tumbleweed repo (for 12.3)?

[MadmanRB]

MATE is not official yet for suse.
Personally I say use XFCE as its a well tested DE

[HackLover]

@MadmanRB

MATE is not official yet for suse.
Personally I say use XFCE as its a well tested DE

I have used all the popular DE (except LXDE) and I can say that XFCE is very good but I prefer MATE ; According to my knowledge it is not official for any of the commercial distros but it have a big success among the users (and for me too - I have used MATE on Fedora 18 and it works perfectly).