Mate 1.6

manyroads · Post by **manyroads** » Sun May 05, 2013 9:57 pm

Any idea when Mate 1.6 might appear in LMDE?

kmb42vt · Post by **kmb42vt** » Thu May 09, 2013 10:58 am

I'd like to know the same thing. I did update LMDE/MATE 201303 to MATE 1.6 using the instructions from here:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#debian

However, the instructions for LMDE are vague and confusing as they don't address LMDE directly, only Debian and once MATE 1.4 is upgraded to 1.6 in LMDE 201303/MATE, the time form login to desktop increases dramatically due to the migration from MateConfig to gsettings, replacing MateCorba/MateComponent with DBus and (possibly) replacing MateVfs with GIO/GVFS. This is due to the upgrade not removing the startup commands and config files for daemons and settings that have been replaced as far as I can tell. I did get it running rather well but I'm sure I missed a few things that should have been removed/replaced manually. As such, I reinstalled LMDE 201303/MATE 1.4 and will wait until 1.6 is backported.

Understanding that nothing is going to happen for LMDE until Linux Mint 15 is released (of course

), it would be nice to see MATE 1.6 backported to LMDE sometime in the near future.

twnaing · Post by **twnaing** » Sun May 26, 2013 12:06 pm

Same here.

I had 201303 LMDE 64bit Mint (MATE 1.4) and then updated to 1.6 according to the instruction of Mate-desktop website.

* I lost my desktop settings (like panel arrangement)
* Beloved Mint Menu gone!
* Control center's desktop related settings no longer worked (changed of background setting saving)
* I had to use DConfEditor instead of MateConf to set the setting I wanted (like composition, font-style, control button arrangement, etc.)
* UI improved
* Gnome-do plugins started working (e.g. Define)

Unfortunately, compiz (I thought) made my laptop hang and I was forced to power down. When the laptop restarted and logged in only black screen shown and many other things were not working as they were doing.

I reinstalled 201303 and waiting for arrival of MATE 1.6 by Mint team.

splarv · Post by **splarv** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:07 pm

Also there exists a custome repository for LMDE with compiz 0.8.8 linked with Mate 1.4.
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?t=869
It will not work with Mate 1.6 becouse it's linked with mateconf.

bancha333 · Post by **bancha333** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 5:14 am

Hi, I updated mate from 1.4 to 1.6 in LMDE (debian edition) and was not functional mintmenu. Menu should look like gnome2....

After starting mintmenu from the command line, I received this:
Gtk.py:47: RuntimeWarning: You have imported the Gtk 2.0 module. Because Gtk 2.0 was not designed for use with introspection some of the interfaces and API will fail. As such this is not supported by the pygobject development team and we encourage you to port your app to Gtk 3 or greater. PyGTK is the recomended python module to use with Gtk 2.0

solution:
fetch this script: [url]http://git.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/plain/mate-conf/mate-conf-import[/url]
Usage: python mate-conf-import
Run "mate-panel --reset"

After this command is mintmenu back again and everything is fine.

rudar · Post by **rudar** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:38 am

Sorry, Bancha, but could you be more specific? What did you exactly do to run this script and to get the Menu in the new version Mate 1.6? I've also failed to get the usual Mint Menu after upgrading to Mate 1.6.

Paulm · Post by **Paulm** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:33 am

Try using Synaptic.

Screenshot-1.png

rudar · Post by **rudar** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:59 am

Here is what I did.
I had the version Mate 1.4 and then I upgraded it to the 1.6 through my Update Manager. I admit I did not like the new look, but never mind of that. Unfortunately, I made an error with logging-in and was unable to run. As I was in hurry and there was no time to ask for an advice, I had to re-install the system.
I downloaded the last available ISO of LMDE, with UP-6, and installed it. Then I tried to be more careful and again started the upgrade process through the Update Manager. Everything went smoothly, but after the restart, there was the same good-old and familiar look of my Desktop. It's just the same like Mate 1.4, just as if nothing happened. I checked through the Update Manager and it is ensuring me that the system was upgraded to the version 1.6.
It's not that I complain, I'm perfectly happy with this system, it's just a bit puzzling.

rudar · Post by **rudar** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:35 am

Here is how my desktop looks like after upgrading from Mate 1.4 to Mate 1.6. Nothing has changed. I also added some information from my Package Manager.

rudar · Post by **rudar** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:04 am

Three more pictures from Package Manager. Is there anything wrong here?

Paulm · Post by **Paulm** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:11 am

Looks ok to me, but you can add 'mate destkop-environment-extra' & themes if you want....
>sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra<

rudar · Post by **rudar** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:36 pm

So, everything is perfect as far as I'm concerned. I only had to adapt my shortcuts and that's it! Not a single icon on my Desktop is lost and everything works perfectly well.
Great job of Mint developers again and many congratulations!! Keep up with the good work!

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