Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

[Perberos]

Hello everyone.
I've made a GNOME2 fork. I've called it "Mate".
My english is not so good. And so, maybe I can not give support in English.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Any suggestion is welcome.

...sorry about short description.

MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork.

Repository: http://mate.karapetsas.com/
Homepage : http://matsusoft.com.ar/projects/mate/
GitHub: https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment
Mailing Lists: https://sourceforge.net/p/matede/mailing-lists/
Feedback: perberos at gmail dotta com omg ugly spam bot
IRC: freenode.net at #mate channel or #archlinux or #archlinux-es

[Perberos]

This method is not any more recommended.

Instructions for build on Ubuntu:

install git

sudo apt-get install git

get all source code from git

git clone https://github.com/perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment.git

while, install all development headers and tools for build.

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libglib2.0-dev libidl-dev \
    libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libpolkit-backend-1-dev flex libpopt-dev \
    bison libbz2-dev libgcrypt11-dev libcanberra-dev libgail-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
    libart-2.0-dev libglade2-dev libtasn1-3-bin libxklavier-dev libsoup2.4-dev \
    icon-naming-utils libunique-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev libwnck-dev \
    librsvg2-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev gobject-introspection \
    libgirepository1.0-dev libupower-glib-dev intltool xsltproc \
    libtasn1-3-dev libtool gtk-doc-tools libgamin-dev \
    librarian-dev

When you got all installed, install mate-doc-utils.

cd Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-doc-utils
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Now you are ready to start to pack.
On each folder inside Mate-Desktop-Environment, you will find one called distro. Inside, there are scripts for build packages.

for example, to build mate-doc-utils, you need to run:

cd Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-doc-utils/distro/ubuntu
./build

It will make 2 folders. pkg contains the files for the tarball .deb, and the src contains the source code, and some file binaries.
The file .deb will be generated. But if you had some problem, post on this thread.

The script do not check for dependency, so you need to follow this order and install it before you get the .deb:

mate-doc-utils
mate-common
mate-corba
mate-conf
libmatecomponent
mate-mime-data
mate-vfs
libmate
libmatecanvas
libmatecomponentui
libmatekeyring
mate-keyring
libmateui
libmatenotify
libmatekbd
libmateweather
mate-icon-theme
mate-dialogs
mate-desktop
mate-file-manager
mate-notification-daemon
mate-backgrounds
mate-menus
mate-window-manager
mate-settings-daemon
mate-control-center
mate-panel
mate-polkit
mate-session-manager

to install a .deb, use:

sudo dpkg -i name_of_pack_here.deb

Tip: How To Disable The Overlay Scrollbars In Ubuntu
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-t...llbars-in.html

Tip: Disable resize gripper in windows
http://askubuntu.com/questions/29209...per-in-windows

[bs5765]

a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor

Made me laugh out loud!

Great job, man. If I wasn't already running GNOME2, I would definitely try it out.

[Metallion]

Been reading your thread about this over at the Arch forum. Looks good. I'll give this a go if I ever find some free time.

[Clement Lefebvre]

Hi Perberos,

mate-doc-utils conflicts with gnome-doc-utils on /usr/bin/xml2po.

More info:

clem@gateway ~/Mate-Desktop-Environment $ sudo dpkg -i mate-doc-utils/distro/ubuntu/mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package mate-doc-utils.
(Reading database ... 186798 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mate-doc-utils (from .../mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing mate-doc-utils/distro/ubuntu/mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/xml2po', which is also in package gnome-doc-utils 0.20.6-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
mate-doc-utils/distro/ubuntu/mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb

Clem.

[kaldor]

Nice work on this. It's quite an effort. I am very content with GNOME 3, but this should make many people very happy.

Also, "hello" to the Mint guy

[Clement Lefebvre]

Hi Kaldor

Ok... I'm facing a compilation error now:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/clem/Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-vfs/distro/ubuntu/src/mate-vfs/doc'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clem/Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-vfs/distro/ubuntu/src/mate-vfs/doc'
Making install in programs
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clem/Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-vfs/distro/ubuntu/src/mate-vfs/programs'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o matevfs-info matevfs-info.o ../libmatevfs/libmatevfs-2.la -pthread -lmateconf-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lselinux -lutil -lrt -lrt
libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o .libs/matevfs-info matevfs-info.o -pthread ../libmatevfs/.libs/libmatevfs-2.so /usr/lib/libmateconf-2.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lselinux -lutil -lrt -pthread
/usr/bin/ld: matevfs-info.o: undefined reference to symbol 'g_object_get'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'g_object_get' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [matevfs-info] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clem/Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-vfs/distro/ubuntu/src/mate-vfs/programs'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
dpkg-deb: building package `mate-vfs' in `mate-vfs_2011.9.26_amd64.deb'.

[Clement Lefebvre]

I've been trying these on a Gnome 2x desktop running LMDE. I'll switch to an Ubuntu 11.10 base running Gnome 3 and see if it makes a difference. I'll check glib and gnome-doc-utils there as well.

[Clement Lefebvre]

OK, it conflicts with gnome-doc-utils on Ubuntu 11.10 as well, but on a different file:



clem@mint:~/Mate-Desktop-Environment/mate-doc-utils/distro/ubuntu$ sudo dpkg -i mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package mate-doc-utils.
(Reading database ... 168688 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mate-doc-utils (from mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2po/modes/mallard.py', which is also in package gnome-doc-utils 0.20.6-1ubuntu2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
mate-doc-utils_2011.9.26_amd64.deb

[Paqman]

Instructions for build on Ubuntu:

Have you considered providing a PPA?