On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:10:17AM -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 8/7/19 8:02 AM, isdtor wrote:
isdtor writes:
Can I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7??
No, definitely not. I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fan either.
Gnome-2.x wasn't broken, didn't need to be thrown away and replaced by something completely different.
Not broken, but full of bugs that will never get fixed.
I did a while back rebuild the EPEL rpms for 1.20. There are spec files I could make available but I can't find the build environemnt setup now. It involves mock, a custom local repo to receive the fresh builds as you don't want to pull in the rpms from EPEL, and a build script that defines the order, among other things. If I have time next week I can try and locate everything.
I have done the hard lifting and rebuilt mate 1.22 on CentOS 7. It's not without quirks, and I haven't actually installed and tested, but I'm willing to make the srpms available - without any commitments. This might make a good addition to Nux :)
The person responsible for packaging the mate RPMs for EPEL offered to hand that off to someone, which I considered (since I'm a Fedora/EPEL packager), but was reluctant to offer without understanding how much heavy lifting was involved. Also, I wasn't sure how much the mate on CentOS user community wants to stick with 1.16 vs. upgrade to 1.22. What kind of "quirks" did you run into?
well, in theory I'd welcome a newer MATE, since I can't stand Gnome 3.x. I'm using the epel versions and find them satisfactory, but I might be willing to build a testing VM and try a later version to see if I like it. and if I do like it would consider installing it on my "real" C7 system.
Dunno if you find that encouraging or not, but at least it is honest.
Fred