What’s new in MATE 1.18
The release is focused on completing the migration to GTK3+ and adopting
new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE Desktop
1.16 still relied on.
The headline changes in MATE Desktop 1.18 are:
The entire MATE Desktop suite of applications and components is now
GTK3+ only!
Requires GTK+ >= 3.14.
All GTK2+ code has been dropped including the --with-gtk build
option.
Completed the migration to GtkApplication from libunique.
Added libinput support for mouse and touchpad.
Separate settings for handedness (left/right-handed) and motion
acceleration/threshold.
Much improved accessibility support (particularly for visually
impaired users).
Many thanks to our friends at Hypra.fr for their contribution!
Caja adds several new features including:
Added a copy queue and copy pausing.
Asking confirmation before moving files to the Trash.
Support for back/forward mouse buttons for directory navigation.
Notification when ejected drives are safe to unplug.
Lock screen will load the users selected background instead of the
system defined default.
MATE Panel gets several improvements, including:
Added desktop actions support for additional launch options.
Added StatusNotifier support.
Added support for Menulibre menu editor, if installed it is
preferred over Mozo.
Engrampa, the archive manager, includes a number of improvements:
Added ear and war to the supported types list.
Check the rar/unrar version to the correct date is shown.
Fixed compress rar and 7z split into volumes.
Notifications now implement action icons support, for example
playback control icons used by media players.
Reworked the font viewer to add font browsing mode, support for TTC
fonts and expose it in the menus by default.
Replaced deprecated upower suspend/hibernate functions with
ConsoleKit2 equivalents.
MATE Terminal adds the ability to close tabs with middle mouse
button.
Atril, the document viewer, has much improved page load times and
adds support for unarchiver used by some comics.
Lots of deprecated GTK+ methods have been replaced and many bugs
have been fixed.
The plugin systems, and all C and Python plugins, in Eye of MATE and
Pluma have been ported to libpeas.
Translations are updated. Thank you to our team of translators!
A number of memory leaks have been plugged.
A-n-d most exciting of all… MATE Calculator is back and has been
ported to GTK3+ :-D
What’s new in MATE 1.16
The release is focused on improving GTK3+ compatibility, migrating
components to newer libraries, fixing bugs and code hygiene. The
headline changes in MATE Desktop 1.16 are:
Improved GTK+3 support across the entire MATE Desktop.
Application and theme support for GTK+ 3.22.
More applications build against GTK+3 only:
Engrampa
MATE Notification Daemon
MATE PolKit
MATE Session Manager
MATE Terminal
Some applications have been decoupled from libmate-desktop:
Engrampa
MATE Applets
MATE Netbook
MATE Power Manager
MATE Terminal
Pluma
Work has started to port applications to GApplication or
GtkApplication:
Engrampa
MATE Applets
MATE Netbook
MATE User Share
Many bugs and deprecations are fixed.
Translations are updated. Thank you to our team of translators!
pkgsrc changes:
- remove a pkgsrc patch for ruby-gnome2-gtk that seems fixed in upstream
- ignore native-package-installer dependency checks
in ruby-gnome2-clutter-gstreamer and ruby-gnome2-webkit-gtk
Upstream changes:
(from https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/blob/3.1.6/NEWS)
== Ruby-GNOME2 3.1.6: 2017-06-03
=== Changes
This is a bug fix release for Windows packages.
==== All
* Fixes
* Added a missing path existence check on Windows.
== Ruby-GNOME2 3.1.5: 2017-06-03
=== Changes
This is a bug fix release for Windows packages.
==== All
* Improvements
* Supported RubyInstaller2.
==== Ruby/Pango
* Improvements
* Add backward compatibility APIs:
* (({Pango::FontDescription::WEIGHT_*}))
* (({Pango::FontDescription::STYLE_*}))
== Ruby-GNOME2 3.1.4: 2017-05-30
=== Changes
This is a release that supports Ruby 2.4 on Windows.
==== All
* Improvements
* Supported MSYS2.
==== Ruby/GLib2
* Improvements
* Added (({GLib::Object#floating?})) for debugging.
==== Ruby/GIO2
* Improvements
* Added (({Gio::File.open})). The followings are deprecated.
* (({Gio::File.commandline_arg}))
* (({Gio::File.path}))
* (({Gio::File.uri}))
==== Ruby/GObjectIntrospection
* Improvements
* Relaxed expected test result for 32bit environment.
[GitHub#1026][Reported by Mamoru TASAKA]
* Added tests for (({GObjectIntrospection::ConstantInfo})).
[GitHub#1027][Patch by cedlemo]
* Supported floating "transfer full" GObject.
==== Ruby/GDK3
* Improvements
* Supported (({Cairo::Surface#to_pixbuf(options={})})).
(({Cairo::Surface#to_pixbuf(src_x, src_y, width, height)})) is
deprecated.
==== Ruby/Rsvg2
* Improvements
* Migrated to GObject Introspection bindings.
* Renamed to (({Rsvg})) from (({RSVG})). (({RSVG})) is still
usable but it's deprecated.
[GitHub#1030][Patch by cedlemo]
* Supported (({Cairo::Context#render_rsvg_handle(handle, :id =>
...)})).
==== Ruby/WebKit2GTK
* Improvements
* (({WebKit3Gtk::WebView#initialize})): Supported (({Hash}))
options.
[GitHub#1028][Patch by Matijs van Zuijlen]
=== Thanks
* Mamoru TASAKA
* cedlemo
* Matijs van Zuijlen
== Ruby-GNOME2 3.1.3: 2017-04-27
=== Changes
This is a release that improve backward compatibility for Ruby/Pango.
==== Ruby/Pango
* Improvements
* Defined constants under (({Pango})) again for backward compatibility.
[GitHub#1022][Reported by Andy Meneely]
* Defined constants under (({Pango::Layout})) again for backward
compatibility.
[GitHub#1022][Reported by Andy Meneely]
* (({Pango.pixels})): Added again.
* (({Pango::AttrShape#data})): Supported again.
* Fixes
* (({Pango::Layout#text=})): Fixed a bug that wrong bytesize is
used for multibyte string.
* (({Pango::Layout#markup=})): Fixed a bug that wrong bytesize
is used for multibyte string.
=== Thanks
* Andy Meneely
== Ruby-GNOME2 3.1.2: 2017-04-26
There is an incompatible change. (({GBytes})) to (({String}))
conversion is changed to (({GBytes})) to (({GLib::Bytes}))
conversion. You can get (({String})) by (({GLib::Bytes#to_s})).
Other incompatible changes are bugs. Please report them to us.
=== Changes
==== All
* Improvements
* Supported auto depended package install for GObject
Introspection based bindings.
==== Ruby/GLib2
* Improvements
* Supported overriding (({alloc_func})) in super class.
* Extracted native package installer code as
native-package-installer gem.
* (({GLib::Bytes})): Added.
* Supported pkg-config 1.1.9 or later.
* Fixes
* Fixed a build error on CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12.04. They use
GLib < 2.34.
[GitHub#1012][Reported by Scot]
* Fixed a bug that (({GLib::TypePlugin})) can't be included.
[GitHub#1019][Patch by Matijs van Zuijlen]
==== Ruby/GIO2
* Fixes
* Fixed a path in test. [GitHub#990][Reported by Mamoru TASAKA]
==== Ruby/GObjectIntrospection
* Improvements
* Supported getting interface, union and boxed type as a field value.
* Supported setting an interface as a field.
* Supported more struct types.
* Supported cairo-gobject types.
* Supported outputting an array of interfaces.
[GitHub#1006][Reported by cedlemo]
* Supported Rubyish method name conversion for (({list_XXX}))
methods that return an array.
* Supported customizing field reader method name.
* Supported auto (({int})) to boolean conversion for field value.
* (({GObjectIntrospection::Repository.default})): Added a GC guard.
* Supported inputting (({unichar})).
* Supported inputting (({gint64})) C array.
* Supported inputting (({gint8})) C array.
* Added tests for (({GObjectIntrospection::UnionInfo})).
[GitHub#1016][Patch by cedlemo]
* Stopped auto (({GBytes})) to (({String}))
conversion. (({GBytes})) is converted to (({GLib::Bytes})). It's
for efficient byte sequence handling in Ruby. It's
an incompatible change. You can use (({GLib::Bytes#to_s})) to
get (({String})).
* Fixes
* (({GObjectIntrospection::RepositoryError})): Fixed parent class.
* Fixed a typo. [GitHub#1002][Reported by cedlemo]
==== Ruby/ATK
* Improvements
* Migrated to GObject Introspection bindings.
[GitHub#998][Patch by cedlemo]
==== Ruby/CairoGObject
* Fixes
* Fixed a double free bug.
==== Ruby/Pango
* Improvements
* Migrated to GObject Introspection bindings.
[GitHub#1007][GitHub#1008][GitHub#1009][GitHub#1010]
[GitHub#1011][Patch by cedlemo]
[GitHub#1013][GitHub#1014][Patch by Detlef Wagner]
==== Ruby/GdkPixbuf2
* Improvements
* Supported GdkPixbuf 2.31.6 on CentOS 7 again.
==== Ruby/GDK3
* Improvements
* (({Gdk::Event})) and subclasses: Supported again.
* Supported old GDK 3 again.
* Supported X11 related features.
[GitHub#999][Reported by johnlane]
==== Ruby/GTK3
* Improvements
* (({Gtk::Widget#click})): Added.
* (({Gtk::Widget#send_key})): Added.
* (({Gtk::Widget#wait_for_draw})): Added.
* (({Gtk::WiAccelGroup.activate})): Added.
* Updated samples.
[GitHub#1002][GitHub#1003]
[Patch by cedlemo]
* (({Gtk::IconTheme#choose_icon})): Changed the default flags to
(({0})) from (({:generic_fallback})).
* (({Gtk::IconTheme#lookup_icon})): Changed the default flags to
(({0})) from (({:generic_fallback})).
* Supported GTK+ < 3.20 again.
* Fixes
* Updated signal name in document.
[GitHub#995][Patch by Arnaud Meuret]
==== Ruby/ClutterGdk
* Fixes
* Ensured initializing GDK.
[GitHub#1000][Reported by cedlemo]
==== Ruby/GOffice
* Improvements
* (({GOffice::Version})): Added.
=== Thanks
* Mamoru TASAKA
* Arnaud Meuret
* cedlemo
* johnlane
* Scot
* Detlef Wagner
* Matijs van Zuijlen
New Libraries
Process library by Klemens D. Morgenstern, that provides cross platorm ways to allows you to:
* create child processes
* setup streams for child processes
* communicate with child processes through streams (synchronously or asynchronously)
* wait for processes to exit (synchronously or asynchronously)
* terminate processes
