Hi,
I've building rpm's of the MATE desktop for fedora 16 and provide them in own unofficially repo.
MATE is a fork of gnome2.
After that you've a minimal save Mate deskop and 4 new repos.
- mate-desktop-fedora
- mate-desktop-fedora-updates
- mate-desktop-fedora-updates-testing
- mate-desktop-fedora-new-applications-testing
The last last repo isn't enabeled as default. You have to enable it in the yum configuration.
I've used fedora spec files as based for my rpm's. So i think they are fedora compatible.
If you find problems or bugs pls post them in the MATE forum if it's more mate specific otherwise here.
Enjoy the MATE feeling
Mate packages for fc17 are now available.
Install instructions:
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
Extra packages:
- caja-dropbox
- caja-actions
- tortoisehg-caja
- caja-terminal (embedded terminal)
- mdm (gdm fork)
- mintmenu
- bastile (seahorse fork)
- idol (fork of totem-2.32)
- rejilla (fork of basero-2.32)
- mate-nettool
- mate-color-manager
- tortoise-hg-caja
- mate-mplayer
- mate-gmail-notifier
In mate-desktop-fedora-updates repo you'll find a compiz mate fork from stable compiz-0.88 packages, which are adjusted for mate.
For example:
gconf to mateconf
metacity to marco for gtk-window-decorator
Simple do:
Code:
yum install compiz compiz-mate compizconfig-backend-mateconf compiz-plugins-main compiz-plugins-main-mate compiz-plugins-extra compiz-plugins-extra-mate compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-unsupported-mate compiz-manager ccsm fusion-icon emerald emerald-themes
To avoid theme inconsistencies between gtk2 and gtk3 applications use 'mate-themes-extras' wich include themes for GTK2/3.
f17 --- mate-themes-extras2
f18 --- mate-themes-extras3
New since 20.06.2012 --Denx-OS
There is a respin of fc17 which comes with Mate-Desktop as the default desktop.
see this topic for instructions.
have fun
New since 24.09.2012
I've update compiz for mate, improvements and changes are...
-- fix compiz and gtk window decoration button placement (bug), see
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=818
-- move compiz packages from 'mate-desktop-fedora-new-application-testing' to 'mate-desktop-fedora' repo.
-- add compiz-mate-gtk binary
This means you can start compiz during desktop start with a mate-conf key.
All you need is to set this mate-conf settings.
Code:
mateconftool-2 --set /desktop/mate/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string compiz-mate-gtk
Or use mate-conf-editor for setting the key.
The Mate-desktop starts directly with compiz yet.
Don't forget to disable fusion-icon in auto start if you use this for starting compiz!
You can use 'fusion-icon -n' for disable start compiz with fusion-icon.
UPDATE 19.12.2012
New release file for f17
remove obsolete information about compiz installation
UPDATE 06.01.2013
fix install instructions
UPDATE 16.01.2013
Additional MATE repository for fedora 18
In the last 2 month i was thinking a lot in which form i do the release for f18.
I decided not to do a full release against official fedora Mate-Desktop for f18, because in the end it is double work.
And i prefer to have more beach, sun, girls and beer the next year
I know the f18 mate release is far away frrom perfect, a little buggy and not complete.
Also they used Mate-1.5.x, which is an development release.
My second thougt to release an stable 1.4.0 release which you know from f16/f17 makes also no sense, because if Mate release 1.6 in maybe march, i have to update too.
And in the end it's double work again.
The best solution in my eyes is to provide an extra repo which include additional MATE packages.
a) additional package from the community
b) official packages from Mate which aren't build in fedora yet.
Package list:
- caja-actions
- caja-dropbox
- caja-terminal
- faience-icon-theme
- gnome-colors-icon-theme
- mate-applets
- mate-color-manager
- mate-disk-utility (palimpset fork)
- mate-icon-theme-faenza
- mate-nettool
- mate-themes-extras-3 (gtk-2/3 theme collection package optimised for gtk3-3.6)
- python-caja
- mate-mplayer
Installattion:
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
You can install the packages via yum yet. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)
Code:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra
The extra repo based on mate-1.5 packages and is full compatible to fedora's mate-desktop.
I've bring back compiz-0.88 in fedora f18 repos and they are hopefully available the next week in updates-testing.
I hope this is also a compromise for you and you will use the repo.
Have fun
Update 22.05.2013
The linuxmint guys did some great work with mintmenu the last weeks, it works well now with MATE-1.5.x/1.6.x
So i decided to povide this Advanced MATE Menu in the f18 repo, feel free to test it.
Update 01.06.2013
Additional MATE repository for fedora 19
This is an additional reop for forthcoming fedora 19 release, which includes community packages which aren't in fedora's official repo's.
They are full compatible with MATE-1.6 and fedora's MATE packages.
Package list:
-- caja-actions
Caja actions is an extension for Caja, the MATE file manager.
It provides an easy way to configure programs to be launch on files
selected in Caja interface.
-- caja-dropbox
Dropbox extension for caja file manager
Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across
your computers automatically.
-- caja-terminal
Caja Terminal is a terminal embedded in Caja, the MATE's file browser.
It is always open in the current folder, and follows the navigation
(like an automated "cd" command).
-- mate-color-manager
mate-color-manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install
and generate color profiles in the MATE desktop.
-- mate-disk-utility
This package contains the Palimpsest disk management application.
Palimpsest supports partitioning, file system creation, encryption,
RAID, SMART monitoring, etc.
-- mate-mplayer
MATE MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a nice tight
player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer. MATE MPlayer has
a rich API that is exposed via DBus. Using DBus you can control a single or
multiple instances of MATE MPlayer from a single command.
This package provides a full-featured binary.
-- mate-nettool
MATE Nettool is a front-end to various networking command line
tools, like ping, netstat, ifconfig, whois, traceroute, finger.
-- mate-themes-extras
The mate-themes-extras package contains a collection of GTK2/3 desktop
themes for all gtk based desktops.
These themes can change the appearance of application widgets, icons,
window borders, cursors, etc.
This package is optimized for GTK3-3.6.x.
-- faience-icon-theme (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- gnome-colors-icon-theme (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- gtk-smooth-engine (needed for mate-themes-extras)
-- python-caja (needed for caja-terminal)
Installation:
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-19/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-19-1.fc19.noarch.rpm
Now you can install the packages via yum. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)
Code:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra
Feel free to test and use those packages.
update 06.06.2013:
Do you wanna quick help?
Pls join us at freenode irc, chanel #fedora-mate .
update 15.06.2013
I did removed mintmenu from f18/19 repos, because it is now in fedora's repos for F17/18/19