[oi-dev] Mate 1.14

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> Hi, Till.
>
> Do we miss something big from Mate now?
>
> I see the following issues:
> 1) Mate-power-manager and battery applet rely on upower, which we don't
> have, so we can't do anything with this for now.
> 2) I still wait for feedback from yelp testing. When it's tested and merged,
> I'll consider mate almost done.
> 3) We didn't try to port nautilus zfs integration. I dislike current
> patches, as they use private libzfs interfaces and break now and then. In
> any case, even if we decide to use them as is, they should be carefully
> expected.
> 4) We didn't port compiz configuration integration to Gnome control center,
> as it relies on gconf now and should be migrated to gsettings. I personally
> don't see this as high priority task.

BTW newer release of compiz only supports MATE, see 0.8.12 series:

https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz/releases

> 5) We didn't preserve GUI interface for reboot -e.
>
> I would like to get feedback on yelp before calling for Mate testing...
>
> Before Mate testing I could create mate_install or similar package to allow
> users install it by one command.
> However, perhaps, I'll postpone it to the end of Mate testing, so that we
> can immediately produce Mate ISOs for wider testing. I consider we should
> try switching GUI image to Mate before next snapshot.
> --
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
>
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