Mate 1.16 for 16.04?

[Bombilla]

Hello @CrazyDesi, If you read @Wimpy post it will answer your question.

MATE Desktop 1.16 will land in Ubuntu MATE 16.10

Some Ubuntu flavours (Ubuntu MATE included) have been criticised for not landing the latest version of their respective desktop with final releases of given Ubuntu version. The upstream MATE Desktop team are preparing to release MATE Desktop 1.16 on September 20th 2016 and have already released development snapshot tarballs for all of MATE Desktop 1.15. I've been working behind the scenes to coordinate with Debian and seek approval from Ubuntu to land MATE Desktop 1.16 in Ubuntu MATE 16.10. T…

@maximuscore

This will not only make Ubuntu MATE 16.10 the first distro to feature a full GTK3+ implementation of MATE but also the first to ship MATE Desktop 1.16

Can we expect some sort of backport to 16.04, even if it's just built with GTK2 again?

@APolihron

On g+

"Martin Wimpress

Maybe never. Ubuntu MATE 16.04 is a GTK2 build of MATE 1.12, although a 1.14 PPA is available. And that is probably where I'll have to leave because the reworking to jump to GTK3 is considerable"