MATE 1.28 desktop environment released with experimental Wayland support

После почти трёх лет разработки официально объявлен релиз среды рабочего стола MATE 1.28, продолжающей развитие кодовой базы GNOME 2.32 с сохранением классической концепции формирования рабочего стола. Анонс релиза датирован февралём, но объявление на сайте проекта появилось всего несколько часов назад, а до этого новая ветка упоминалась только в виде тегов в Git-репозитории проекта, без явного объявления о релизе и без публикации общего перечня изменений. Пакеты с MATE 1.28 уже доступны в репозиториях таких дистрибутивов, как Fedora 40, Gentoo, Mageia, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux, ALT Linux, Artix, OpenIndiana, GhostBSD, Parabola, Solus и Void Linux.

The most important changes:

  • При подготовке новой ветки основное внимание было сосредоточено на обеспечении поддержки работы с использованием протокола Wayland. Добавлен экспериментальный сеанс на базе Wayland, использующий композитный server Wayfire. Большинство апплетов, размещаемых в панели, включая апплет управления громкостью, апплет индикации заряда аккумулятора и сетевой апплет, адаптированы для работы с Wayland (исключение составили только апплеты AccessX и Geyes, завязанные на X11). Обеспечена работа с Wayland конфигуратора (Центр управления), мультимедийных приложений, системы вывода уведомлений, системы управления энергопотреблением, эмулятора терминала.
  • The taskbar now has the ability to display a list of active windows when using Wayland, and also provides a correct indication of the recycle bin status.
  • The Caja file manager adds support for managing desktop icons, drawing background images, and changing the desktop wallpaper when using a Wayland-based session. Added audio-video-properties plugin to display media file properties.
  • The Eye of MATE image viewer, mate-control-center configurator, Engrampa archive program, mate-terminal, mate-desktop, mate-menu, mate-polkit, mate-power-manager, mate- system-monitor and multimedia utilities.
  • Added the “alt-tab-raise-windows” setting to the Marco window manager. When set, when you cycle through window thumbnails in the interface shown when you press Alt+tab, the selected windows will be raised relative to other windows to make them easier to identify.
  • The Atril document viewer has been converted to use the libarchiv library to handle comic book formats. Declared support for EPUB format. The browser engine has been updated to WebKitGTK 4.2.1. The code base has been updated to eliminate the use of outdated methods.
  • The Engrampa archive program uses the unar utility to work with the CPIO format instead of the cpio utility. Added support for the unrar-free utility. Work has been done to improve performance and improve compatibility with various archivers.
  • The Quickhighlight plugin has been added to the Pluma text editor, providing highlighting of places in the document where a selected piece of text occurs.
  • The MATE Terminal terminal emulator ensures correct transfer of files from the file manager to the terminal window (the path to the file is inserted). Added support for OSC 8 escape sequences for inserting hyperlinks. Improved work with tabs - added support for double-clicking on a tab to change its name.
  • mate-indicator-applet, a universal applet for displaying indicators in a panel (Ayatana AppIndicator), has added support for the middle mouse button.
  • The background process for managing settings (mate-settings-daemon) has been moved from dbus-glib to GDBus.
  • The system monitor (mate-system-monitor) has an improved interface and includes systemd support by default.
  • Changes have been made to improve the stability and efficiency of the eom (Eye of MATE) image viewer.
  • Memory leaks have been fixed and cosmetic changes have been made to the configurator.
  • Improved Mozo menu editor interface.
  • The code base was cleaned of outdated libraries and compatibility with current GTK releases was implemented.

MATE 1.28 desktop environment released with experimental Wayland support
MATE 1.28 desktop environment released with experimental Wayland support


Source: opennet.ru
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