Two years after the last stable release, the MATE project has published desktop environment release MATE 1.29. The MATE project continues to develop the GNOME 2.32 codebase while maintaining the classic desktop concept. Branch 1.29 is presented as experimental and is used to develop and test the functionality of the future stable release of MATE 1.30.
Since the spring of 2024, the development of MATE was in stagnation, but now Victor Kareh has joined the active support of the project (Victor Kareh) from Red Hat. Changes in MATE 1.29 include:
- MateRROutput has been added with a hotplug_mode_update property that uses the RandR extension to support dynamic resolution changes by output devices. In practice, the change allows the environment to adapt to changes in window size when running in virtualization systems.
- The background thumbnail generation mechanism has been spared from using X11-specific calls when working in Wayland-based environments. Instead of the gdk_x11_screen_get_xscreen function, the gdk_monitor_get_geometry call is used to obtain information about the screen size on Wayland systems.
- The marco window manager implements the alt-tab-minimized-placement and alt-tab-urgent-placement settings to select how minimized windows and warnings are displayed in the Alt+Tab interface.
- The Caja file manager implements an option to stop generating thumbnails in very large directories and allows detaching tabs into separate windows.
- Fixed memory leaks and problems with color selection via mate-color-select.
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