I’m still interested in a Panel Switcher for MATE, which would save, export, import and install a panel configuration along with associated icons and launchers. I first mentioned this in January here:
A way to turn off tooltips. Can it really be impossible?
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Meta + L to lock the screen by default.
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I would like to see a more attractive lock screen. Like Gnome’s or KDE’s plama. The square box in the middle with a zoomed in background is not very pretty. A full screen lock screen would be great.
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I would like to see a long standing bug fixed so that one could use Caja to copy files in a SSH or SFTP session and retain the original file’s timestamp. Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/332646 - “when copying or moving files to a directory mounted over sftp, the time stamps are not preserved.” Judging from those subscribed to this bug, it is a very low priority item.
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I’d like to see more polish and tweaking to the smaller but still important UI bugs, for example the Ambiant-Mate dark themes don’t show the focus caret when using the keyboard to navigate in the menu/advanced menu etc (bug logged a few months ago). Slightly misaligned textures in dark menus also show up the default transparent grid-pattern in a thin line at the bottom border of the scroll region. Just fixing little things like this would bring Mate up from brilliant to superb!
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Alan Pope just reverted the status of this bug to “confirmed”, it should help. :]
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Thanks ouroumov. I hope that the next LTS release has this small irritation fixed.
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i’d like to see PHP along with ncurses actually install without Apache, i’d like to actually use PHP as the system scripting language, i’d like to dispose of systemd, i’d like UM to boot up correctly every time, and i’d like to take a nap. i expect the last item to actually occur.
As of Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2
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A way to easily replace Ubuntu MATE’s green coloring scheme with the end users choice of colors.
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Remove Plank’s preferences icon by default. Can currently be removed using dconf-editor. Go to net.launchpad.plank.docks.dock1 and uncheck show-dock-item.
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A way to easily disable the Guest Session. Can currently disable by adding allow-guest=false to /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu-mate.conf
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Enable the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Backspace by default. Currently enabled by adding XKBOPTIONS=“terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp” to /etc/default/keyboard
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Enabled Area Screenshot Key Bindings by default.
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A way to easily disable apport. Currently can be disabled by changing enabled=1 to enabled=0 in /etc/default/apport
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A way to easily turn off Bluetooth by default. Various workarounds.
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A way to easily change greater and lock screen backgrounds. Various workarounds.
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Ubuntu-Mate’s panels stay on top of a VirtualBox Virtual Machine when in full screen mode while using Compiz as the Window manager. Can currently correct this problem by opening the Virtual Machine Settings, going to User Interface, and disable the Mini ToolBar.
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Network manager applet changes state after suspend and wireless networks can no longer be seen. The wireless network remains connected but is now displayed as a LAN connection with no options to disconnect. To restore the network manager applet (nm-applet) to a normal state with out logging out, open a terminal and run: sudo service network-manager restart
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A wider range of backup scheduling for DejaDup. This can currently be changed with dconf-editor in org.gnome.DejaDup.
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Add a feature to Disks Utility that would allow a disk to be securely erased.
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I have a very simple one that goes way back to Gnome2.
Make one session screen combining shutdown and logout functions in one place. Every time I use XFCE it reminds me how nice this would be. 
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Hot corners like on a iMac, natively .
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+1 for the configuration export
I’d like to be able to manually reorder the indicators in the panel. You can move some of them using config files, and not easily, but you can’t mix the app indicators and system indicators. Xfce’s panel options has a great implementation of this feature.
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Integrating Firejail as an option, but with presets already for all the other apps within the distro…
Including for instance a preset for Flash, one for Steam (or the Steam installer), etc.
Also, I’d love to the see the GTK+ 3 diagonal menu navigation bug fixed (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1641867)
I’d like for Caja to become the first default file manager on any DE in Linux history that doesn’t suck.
It could start by giving:
- Horizontal and vertical dual pane support
- Configurable toolbar
- Current directory aware command line text box
I never really use any distros default file manager for more than a few minutes after OS setup and before I install Double Commander. But it’s sort of sad that I should install a third party FM, because no bloody DE under the sun will ever give one for power users, and helping foment the idea that our default FMs actually do suck big time . Instead they all just give you this little toy equal among everyone else. The only thing really distinguishing them being the completely unnecessary dependencies on the DE core libraries. It’s almost like a joke. It’s probably a joke. I believe it’s a joke.
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Super + L support has been add to Ubuntu MATE 17.10 daily.
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Bold application name in the new global menu 
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