The MATE Wayland Port Is Moving Along, NVIDIA Mir Support Still Being Tackled

[Michael]

As far as I know, MATE 1.8+ is Gtk+3-only DE.


Typo: :s/nwo/now/

Yep fixed thanks. Typed this article before my coffee was done brewing :/

[the_scx]

MATE, of course, is the GTK2-forked desktop environment.

As far as I know, MATE 1.8+ is Gtk+3-only DE.

The basics of MATE on Wayland are nwo working but popups created by the panel are positioned incorrectly as one of the current outstanding issues. MATE has long wanted a Wayland port.

Typo: :s/nwo/now/

[Michael]

Mate use gtk+3 since a long time, no need to repeat non-open task which are already done by us

Whoops thought some MATE apps still relied on GTK2, thanks for clarification.

[raveit65]

Mate use gtk+3 since a long time, no need to repeat non-open task which are already done by us

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The MATE Wayland Port Is Moving Along, NVIDIA Mir Support Still Being Tackled

William Wold of Canonical's Mir team shared their latest weekly progress report on this display server supporting the Wayland protocol. While a short report, the two bits shared are quite interesting...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MATE-Wayland-NVIDIA-Mir