We just received an email from martin wimpress announcing that version 1.16 of the famous MATE desktop environment, which brings several corrections, improvements and new functionalities, highlighting that the main objective of this version is to improve the compactness with GTK3 +.
It took the Ubuntu development team and the community six months to get this version, it presents updates in the libraries, a good amount of bug fixes, in addition to the refactoring and cleaning of the source code.
MATE 1.16 Desktop Environment Features
There are many new features in mate 1.16, which we can delve into the release note which is already posted on the official website. We can highlight the following:
- The compactness with GTK3 + GUI (Graphical User Interface) has improved considerably, which increases the possibility of extending the MATE desktop with various applications and themes.
- Growth of applications that are now compatible with GTK3 +, including the Engrampa file manager, the MATE notifications daemon, the MATE session manager, MATE Polkit, the MATE Terminal console and many others.
- MATE 1.14 bugs fixed.
- Updated translations of various packages.
- Many more
How to download MATE 1.16 Desktop Environment
You can download MATE 1.16 from official desktop repositoriesIt is likely that in the next few hours and days, the official distributions repositories will have the necessary packages available for installation.