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Originally posted by duncanjmurray (duncanjmurray) on 2016-05-25

Great news Martin. Glad to hear HiDPI support is coming - at the moment lack of HiDPI support means not being able to select the nicest panels in the latest equipment. I'm also glad the GTK3 issues won't be affecting me, given I use the straight application/places/system layout.

Got a question - all this fancy stuff they're doing in gnome 3 with buttons in the window dressing, and menus hear there and everywhere (well, coming from buttons, from the top of the screen and from menus) - how will that affect the way these programs display and function in MATE?

Thanks again for all the hard work - it's a great distro.

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Originally posted by saurav khatri (saurav_khatri) on 2016-05-25

it would be great if high dpi could be managed i love mate but due to resolution problem (3200*1800) i'm not able to make it primary OS. any help would be great

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Originally posted by bumkailashkumar (bumkailashkumar) on 2016-05-25

thank you

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Originally posted by Александр Плосков (disqus_GZcS9peqkH) on 2016-05-25

Whats the difference between Mate Menu and Gnome Main Menu? Show it as screenshoot, please? Is Gnome Main Menu classic triple-button menu?

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Originally posted by bumkailashkumar (bumkailashkumar) on 2016-05-25

ubuntu mate is better than ubuntu who has made this operatin system i downloaded ubuntu mate 16.10 its awesome more features than ubuntu hates off to the entire team of ubuntu mate i am going to use ubuntu mate once again congratulation for mate.

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Originally posted by Julian (julian_klode) on 2016-05-25

That's gnome-main-menu: https://en.opensuse.org/ima...

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Originally posted by Александр Плосков (disqus_GZcS9peqkH) on 2016-05-25

It means, what Applications-Places-System menu will be supported in Ubuntu Mate 16.10?

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Originally posted by Jo-Erlend Schinstad (disqus_EraFu44JTl) on 2016-05-25

Yes.

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Originally posted by MikeF (mf900) on 2016-05-25

Martin, thank you for writing an articulate and frequently updated blog. Other 'classic' desktop environment dev teams would do well to emulate this practice.

Since Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Debian Jessie have arrived I've been trying to catch up on MATE development. My dim memory recalls that 'someones' desktop menu had the ability to separate and/or hide the old Gnome 2 categories Applications, Places, and System.
Will this ability be included in the new MATE menu; if not, why not?

I'll be watching the available MATE themes as I've found that I prefer some GTK2 themes that use less white space; an bad GTK3 example would be Cinnamon that has needlessly huge icons and taskbars IMO.

TIA, Mike

motang

I am so looking forward to this! Does this mean all popular themes would work w/o any hack?

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Originally posted by Harrison Wells (harrison_wells) on 2016-05-26

Keep up the good work MATE Team. I love my Ubuntu MATE 16.04 setup.

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Originally posted by Александр Плосков (disqus_GZcS9peqkH) on 2016-05-26

Thanks, it's good news.

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Originally posted by Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2016-05-26

To fix your GCalculator snap app, you only have to install proper fontconfig stuff and generate caches, so that they're in proper XDG data dirs.

You can see an example wrapper script here (check the yaml for the deps too): http://bazaar.launchpad.net...

Or similar in the gnome-calculator snap: http://bazaar.launchpad.net...

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Originally posted by sola (soltesza) on 2016-05-26

I hope that migration to GTK3 also brings Wayland support closer. The major desktops are all gearing up for Wayland support and MATE should be among them.

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Originally posted by MegaDrive (disqus_JZbRgty5SU) on 2016-05-26

Things are heating up. Snaps, GTK3 and so on. I don't think anyone will miss Gnome Main Menu. But I really miss Fog icon theme. It was great with TraditionalOk GTK theme.

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Originally posted by Jeremy Black (disqus_WFffteWB5T) on 2016-05-26

I just switched to Mate from Gnome with the 16.04 release primarily because it supports X2GO. This sounds like the kind of change that will break MATE with X2GO too. Crap.

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Originally posted by oldrocker99 (oldrocker99) on 2016-05-27

This is wonderful news. UM 16.04 is the BEST OS I have ever used; if only Ubuntu 8.04 had been half as good.

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Originally posted by Joe Lamothe (joe_lamothe) on 2016-05-31

Glad to hear of the upcomming additions. Thank you for all your hard work. Ubuntu Mate 16.04 has been my daily since release and I'm loving it. Keep up the good work!!

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Originally posted by Samuele pieghe (samuelePieghe) on 2017-01-20

Is it possible to have a 1.25 scaling. like with Unity?

yazdzik

HiDPI, is going to be a thing. Really, it is. With MATE 1.14 built against GTK3+ we have initial HiDPI support working. Don’t get too excited, this is an all or nothing implementation. It can be enabled via an environment variable and a session restart, but once done, all GTK3 applications (not just MATE) will be rendered using high quality pixel doubling. If you have a 4K display, it looks ace

can you tell us how to do this, please? env=“I cannot see anything” has not worked for me!

evolution looks rather bizarre, at least on the live usb version

best,
m

FrankS

Hi Martin,
Congrats! Great news for ubuntu mate future!
With GTK3+ switching and new tecnologies, ubuntu mate will be the best ubuntu flavour.

For the MATE Menu and GNOME Main Menu problems, why don’t adopt an Advanced Menu based on a tweaked version of Panther Launcher from Rastersoft? It’s a modern and fast menu forked from Slingshot Launcher.

Thank you!

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acutbal

Really nice idea!! It would give a really modern look and feel.

Please, could you post it in the"Thoughts & Feedback" section?

Regards!!

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FrankS

Ok, good idea. Regards!