F21 Self Contained Change: MATE Desktop 1.8
Jaroslav Reznik
jreznik at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 18:24:46 UTC 2014
= Proposed Self Contained Change: MATE Desktop 1.8 =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MATE_1.8
Change owner(s): Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at fedoraproject.org>, Wolfgang Ulbrich
<chat-to-me at raveit.de>
Update MATE Desktop to version 1.8
== Detailed Description ==
Release 1.8
* New features
- new mate-user-quide
- add window snapping/tiling support to Marco window-manager
- improved support for systemd-logind
- command line panel-applet for displaying the result of a command in the
panel
- mpaste tool for using Mate's paste website
- caja-beesu extension for opening a file as superuser
- support for upower-1.0 (60% is done in rawhide)
- allow rotation of mate-panel background
- add support for Metacity as window manager
- add shuffle mode in slideshow of eom image-viewer
- eom image-viewer is migrated to lcms2
- show date and time in mate-screensaver lock dialog
- show graphical time in logout/shutdown dialog
- switch complete to pulseaudio, good bye gstreamer mixer
- middle click on volume-applet toggles mute state
- add undo functionality to Sticky-note applet
- gnome-main-menu panel-applet (review request comming soon)
* Renaming some packages
- mate-file-manager to caja
- mate-window-manager to marco
- mate-text-editor to pluma
- mate-document-viewer to atril
- mate-menu-editor to mozo
- mate-file-archiver to engrampa
- mate-image-viever to eom
* Replacements
- mate-doc-utils with yelp-tools, help in all packages works now
- single caja extensions packages are now summarized in the new caja-
extensions package
- libmatewnck with libwnck
* Drops
- mate-character-maps
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
1) Upgrade all packages to 1.8 version.
2) Update comps with new package set.
3) Submit review requests for the following renamed packages:
mate-file-manager -> caja
mate-window-manager -> marco
mate-image-viewer -> eom
mate-file-archiver -> engrampa
mate-text-editor -> pluma
mate-document-viewer -> atril
mate-menu-editor -> mozo
4) Retire the following dropped packages:
libmatewnck
mate-doc-utils
mate-keyring
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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