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data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%85%8C_(%EC%86%8C%ED%94%84%ED%8A%B8%EC%9B%A8%EC%96%B4)" title="마테 (소프트웨어) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마테 (소프트웨어)" data-language-autonym="한국어" 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data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li 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data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="MATE" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E7%92%B0%E5%A2%83)" title="MATE (デスクトップ環境) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="MATE (デスクトップ環境)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE" title="MATE – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" 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href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">August 19, 2011<span class="noprint">; 13 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2011-08-19</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">1.28.2<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-144d737aa22a6cc85c8a2a963cf1bec90534e63a-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-144d737aa22a6cc85c8a2a963cf1bec90534e63a-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span 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control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop">github<wbr />.com<wbr />/mate-desktop<wbr />/mate-desktop</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194090#P1324" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" 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<p><b>MATE</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span></span>/</a></span></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-official-mate-name_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-official-mate-name-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment">desktop environment</a> composed of <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" title="Free and open-source software">free and open-source software</a> that runs on <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution" title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Illumos" title="Illumos">illumos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MATE is named after the South American plant <a href="/wiki/Yerba_mate" title="Yerba mate">yerba mate</a> and tea made from the herb, <a href="/wiki/Mate_(beverage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mate (beverage)">mate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-official-mate-name_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-official-mate-name-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name is stylized in all capital letters to follow the nomenclature of other Free Software desktop environments like <a href="/wiki/KDE" title="KDE">KDE</a> and <a href="/wiki/LXDE" title="LXDE">LXDE</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Recursive_acronym" title="Recursive acronym">recursive</a> <a href="/wiki/Backronym" title="Backronym">backronym</a> "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" was subsequently adopted by most of the MATE community, again in the spirit of Free Software like <a href="/wiki/GNU" title="GNU">GNU</a> ("GNU's Not Unix!").<sup id="cite_ref-oreilly_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oreilly-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The use of a new name, instead of GNOME, avoids naming conflicts with GNOME 3 components.<sup id="cite_ref-oreilly_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oreilly-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Perberos, an Argentine user of <a href="/wiki/Arch_Linux" title="Arch Linux">Arch Linux</a>, started the MATE project<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to <a href="/wiki/Fork_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fork (software)">fork</a> and continue <a href="/wiki/GNOME_2" title="GNOME 2">GNOME 2</a> in response to the negative <a href="/wiki/GNOME#Criticism" title="GNOME">reception of GNOME 3</a>, which had replaced its traditional <a href="/wiki/Taskbar" title="Taskbar">taskbar</a> (<a href="/wiki/GNOME_Panel" class="mw-redirect" title="GNOME Panel">GNOME Panel</a>) with <a href="/wiki/GNOME_Shell" title="GNOME Shell">GNOME Shell</a>. MATE aims to maintain and continue the latest GNOME 2 code base, frameworks, and core applications.<sup id="cite_ref-ingeek-mate_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ingeek-mate-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-phoronix-mate_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phoronix-mate-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-digitizor-torvalds_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-digitizor-torvalds-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MATE was initially announced for Debian on November 8, 2013, at its official website.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MATE became an official Arch Linux community package in January 2014.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Component_applications"><span class="anchor" id="MARCO"></span>Component applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Component applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_GTK_applications" title="List of GTK applications">List of GTK applications</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mate-caja-IconView.en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Mate-caja-IconView.en.png/220px-Mate-caja-IconView.en.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Mate-caja-IconView.en.png/330px-Mate-caja-IconView.en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Mate-caja-IconView.en.png/440px-Mate-caja-IconView.en.png 2x" data-file-width="1366" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Showing a main component of "Caja" file-manager</figcaption></figure> <p>MATE has forked a number of applications which originated as <a href="/wiki/GNOME_Core_Applications" title="GNOME Core Applications">GNOME Core Applications</a>, and developers have written several other applications from scratch. The forked applications have new names, most of them from Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Mate applications </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Application name </th> <th>Spanish translation </th> <th>Forked from </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Features </th></tr> <tr> <td>Atril </td> <td>lectern </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Evince" title="Evince">Evince</a> </td> <td>Document viewer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/EPUB" title="EPUB">EPUB</a> support <p><a href="/wiki/Caret_navigation" title="Caret navigation">Caret navigation</a> support<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Caja </td> <td>box </td> <td><a href="/wiki/GNOME_Files" title="GNOME Files">GNOME Files</a> (Nautilus) </td> <td>File Manager </td> <td>Extension support<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Engrampa </td> <td>staple </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archive_Manager" class="mw-redirect" title="Archive Manager">Archive Manager</a> (File Roller) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/File_archiver" title="File archiver">File archiver</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Eye of MATE </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME" title="Eye of GNOME">Eye of GNOME</a> </td> <td>Image viewer </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>MATE Calculator </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/GNOME_Calculator" title="GNOME Calculator">GNOME Calculator</a> </td> <td>Calculator </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>MATE Control Center </td> <td> </td> <td>GNOME Control Center </td> <td>MATE desktop settings </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>MATE System Monitor </td> <td> </td> <td>GNOME System Monitor </td> <td>Graphical resource monitor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>MATE Terminal </td> <td> </td> <td>GNOME Terminal </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Terminal_emulator" title="Terminal emulator">Terminal emulator</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>marco </td> <td>frame </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metacity" title="Metacity">Metacity</a> </td> <td>MATE <a href="/wiki/Window_manager" title="Window manager">window manager</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mozo </td> <td>waiter </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alacarte" title="Alacarte">Alacarte</a> </td> <td>Menu editor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pluma_(text_editor)" title="Pluma (text editor)">Pluma</a> </td> <td>pen </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gedit" title="Gedit">Gedit</a> </td> <td>Text editor </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mate-caja-1.26.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mate-caja-1.26.png/220px-Mate-caja-1.26.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mate-caja-1.26.png/330px-Mate-caja-1.26.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mate-caja-1.26.png/440px-Mate-caja-1.26.png 2x" data-file-width="828" data-file-height="598" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot of Caja file manager: v.1.26</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mate-caja-about-1.26.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Mate-caja-about-1.26.png/220px-Mate-caja-about-1.26.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Mate-caja-about-1.26.png/330px-Mate-caja-about-1.26.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Mate-caja-about-1.26.png/440px-Mate-caja-about-1.26.png 2x" data-file-width="469" data-file-height="384" /></a><figcaption>Caja-about, version 1.26</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MATE_1.10.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/MATE_1.10.png/220px-MATE_1.10.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/MATE_1.10.png/330px-MATE_1.10.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/MATE_1.10.png/440px-MATE_1.10.png 2x" data-file-width="1366" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot of MATE 1.10, GTK3 version, on <a href="/wiki/Manjaro_Linux" class="mw-redirect" title="Manjaro Linux">Manjaro Linux</a></figcaption></figure> <p>MATE fully supports the <a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a> 3 application framework. The project is supported by <a href="/wiki/Ubuntu_MATE" title="Ubuntu MATE">Ubuntu MATE</a> lead developer Martin Wimpress and by the <a href="/wiki/Linux_Mint" title="Linux Mint">Linux Mint</a> development team: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We consider MATE yet another desktop, just like KDE, Gnome 3, Xfce etc... and based on the popularity of Gnome 2 in previous releases of Linux Mint, we are dedicated to support it and to help it improve. The most popular Linux desktop was, and arguably is, Gnome 2.<sup id="cite_ref-mint-support-mate_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mint-support-mate-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>New features have been added to Caja such as undo/redo<sup id="cite_ref-caja-undo_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caja-undo-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and diff viewing for file replacements.<sup id="cite_ref-caja-13_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caja-13-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MATE 1.6 removes some deprecated libraries, moving from mate-conf (a fork of <a href="/wiki/GConf" title="GConf">GConf</a>) to <a href="/wiki/Dconf" title="Dconf">GSettings</a>, and from mate-corba (a fork of GNOME's <a href="/wiki/Bonobo_(component_model)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonobo (component model)">Bonobo</a>) to <a href="/wiki/D-Bus" title="D-Bus">D-Bus</a>. </p><p>One of the aims of the MATE developers is to provide a traditional user experience while using the newest technologies. In MATE 1.20, which was released in February 2018, support for <a href="/wiki/HiDPI" class="mw-redirect" title="HiDPI">HiDPI</a> was added and the <a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a> version got increased to 3.22. The MATE 1.22 release migrated many programs from <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a> 2 to Python 3 and from dbus-glib to <a href="/wiki/GDBus" class="mw-redirect" title="GDBus">GDBus</a>. In an upcoming version, support for <a href="/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wayland (display server protocol)">Wayland</a> will be added.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release_history">Release history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Release history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png/220px-PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png/330px-PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png/440px-PV-BSD_10.1.2_MATE_Screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="2340" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot of a <a href="/wiki/PC-BSD" class="mw-redirect" title="PC-BSD">PC-BSD</a> 10.1.2 desktop (MATE) with dual monitor (dual head, pivot). The running free and open-source (<a href="/wiki/FOSS" class="mw-redirect" title="FOSS">FOSS</a>) programs are: <a href="/wiki/GIMP" title="GIMP">GIMP</a>, <a href="/wiki/OpenShot_Video_Editor" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenShot Video Editor">OpenShot Video Editor</a>, file manager, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Python_IDE" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Python IDE">Eric</a> Python development <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a>. Also shown: <a href="/wiki/Minecraft" title="Minecraft">Minecraft</a> 1.8.7 (with "Forge" <a href="/wiki/Minecraft_modding" title="Minecraft modding">mods</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>Note that there are an odd number of versions between each official release. They are treated as versions under development, and are not announced as official releases. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Date </th> <th>Version </th></tr> <tr> <td>2011-06-18 </td> <td>Announced at Arch Linux forum<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011-08-19 </td> <td>Initial release<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012-04-16 </td> <td>1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012-07-30 </td> <td>1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013-04-02 </td> <td>1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014-03-04 </td> <td>1.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015-06-11 </td> <td>1.10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015-11-05 </td> <td>1.12 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016-04-08 </td> <td>1.14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016-09-21 </td> <td>1.16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017-03-13 </td> <td>1.18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018-02-07 </td> <td>1.20 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019-03-18 </td> <td>1.22 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020-02-10 </td> <td>1.24 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021-08-03 </td> <td>1.26 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024-02-12 </td> <td>1.28<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adoption">Adoption</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adoption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The MATE website lists 27 <a href="/wiki/Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distributions</a> and 5 <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a> that support the MATE desktop environment.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MATE_(desktop_environment)&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>MATE was criticized for having no <a href="/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)" title="Wayland (protocol)">Wayland</a> support <sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but in version 1.28 Wayland support was "initially added".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some users are now sticking more to the Wayland support, as Wayland has significant improvements since. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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