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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------