From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>,
Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Update MATE to 1.24
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:09:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dz81hw1.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32ae161c-88d8-3ee8-938d-7b5185913ffc@web.de>
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Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> as the next release is approaching fast, I thought it would be nice to
> have MATE 1.24 in. Compared to other desktop environments (hi GNOME)
> updating is straight forward.
>
> I tested MATE 1.24 in a VM. There are two problems:
> * MATE suffers from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38135, so you
> can't start any applications from the menu. This is a MAJOR usability
> bug. The fix for it is in core-updates.
There is an easy workaround for this problem though: installing
glib:bin. We could propagate it for now, or simply add it to
%base-packages.
> * atril requires a newer glib/gio (also in core-updates).
Is it just Atril that needs the newer GLib? We could give Atril its own
version of GLib without having to update the "main" one.
> I have two branches:
> https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/-/tree/wip-mate-1.24 based on master
> https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/-/tree/wip-mate-1.24-co based on
> core-updates
Great! Would you like to apply for a Savannah account so users don't
have to pull from a third party to test it? I'm happy to vouch for you.
Thanks,
Marius
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 23:54 Update MATE to 1.24 Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-03-25 17:09 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-03-25 21:32 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-03-25 21:58 ` sirgazil
2020-03-30 19:43 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-03-30 20:42 ` sirgazil
2020-03-30 20:43 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-03-30 20:45 ` sirgazil
2020-03-30 20:57 ` sirgazil
2020-03-30 19:07 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
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