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? -Greg