Fra le principali novità di questa versione vi è finalmente l'arrivo di buona parte di MATE 1.10 (ovviamente nella stabile troveremo tutto il sistema aggiornato, attualmente mancano le versioni aggiornate di atril, mate-panel, mate-control-center, mate-power-manager, engrampa, mate-applets, mate-icon-theme-faenza, mate-sensors-applet, mate-user-share), Ubuntu MATE Welcome 1.0.3 che amplia i programmi installabili e si arricchisce di nuove funzionalità e Ubuntu MATE Tweak 3.5.2 che aggiunge due nuove layout (quello di Fedora e quello di Mageia).
Ma vediamo nel dettaglio quali sono l principali novità rispetto alla Alpha 2 (mi scuso con i lettori per aver lasciato il changelog completo in lingua inglese, prometto di tradurlo quanto prima):
- Updated to MATE 1.10 (mostly).
- Caja now has an extension manager so plugins can be enabled/disabled at run-time.
- A new audio mixer library,
libmatemixer, has been introduced. - Provides an abstract API allowing access to mixer functionality available in the PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS sound systems.
- Improved multi-monitor support.
- Theme support has been expanded including Client Side Decorations (CSD) and pop-overs.
- Full help and documentation is now available.
- Static code analysis has resulted in many memory leaks being plugged.
- Lots of bugs fixes. Really, lots.
- For more details see the MATE 1.10 Release Notes.
- Updated Ubuntu MATE Welcome 1.0.3.
- Renamed to Welcome.
- Added splash animation and transitions. Thanks to Luke Horwell.
- Added and updated the content for Introduction and Features. Thanks to Larry Bushey of Going Linux podcast.
- Added access to backup, firewall and user manager to Getting Started.
- Added catgories to the Software page.
- Added a proprietary software toggle to the Software page.
- Added new applications to the Software page.
- App Grid.
- Chromium as an alternative to Google Chrome.
- Disks.
- Hardinfo.
- SpiderOakONE.
- Ubuntu Software Centre.
- VeraCrypt.
- Update buttons in Software to make them consistent.
- Hide some elements when in a live session.
- Updated MATE Tweak 3.5.2
- Added support for Fedora and Mageia panel layout.
- Update xcursor icon-theme when switching Window Manager to preserve MATE xcursor preferences.
- Ported to Python 3.
- Added Deja Dup integration to Caja filemanager. Thanks to Marcos Costales.
- Deja Dup now has ful content menu control in the Caja file manager.
- Fixed unlocking a locked screen.
How complete is MATE 1.10?
We're not quite there yet. Here is the list of MATE packages that have not yet been updated to MATE 1.10.- atril
- mate-panel
- mate-control-center
- mate-power-manager
- engrampa
- mate-applets
- mate-icon-theme-faenza
- mate-sensors-applet
- mate-user-share
