I'm currently packaging MATE, but I'm not a very well experienced
user of MATE. I'm used to modular systems where you can reuse
applications outside of their bigger projects.

gnome-terminal can in theory be used in other WMs and DMs aswell.
Except that with mate-terminal I had issues in a spectrwm - only system.
In addition to "bug#28088: "The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files" with multiple applications"
I get this in GNOME (where 28088 is a non-issue):

user@abyayala ~$ mate-terminal

(mate-terminal:841): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.mate.interface' is not installed

Trace/breakpoint trap


I assume I might still lack an application in the graph though.. I have the very
base of MATE now, and the test with MATE is with only mate itself being
present.

The very base seems to be:
mate-desktop, mate-menus, mate-panel, mate-session-manager
mate-settings-daemon, marco, and optionally(?)
caja, mate-control-center, mate-media,
mozo, mate-terminal.

But I only experience issues with mate-terminal for now.. Marco/the WM itself
is another issue.

This is what I have:

commit 380e1ca853794336e1874a2d555af6aebca2e42b (HEAD -> system/mate)
Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 14 18:58:34 2017 +0000

    gnu: Add mate-panel.

    * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-panel): New variable.

commit 100357037d50a9ea8268152353210d67e9fd34b5
Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 14 17:18:06 2017 +0000

    gnu: Add mate-session-manager.

    * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-session-manager): New variable.

commit 09502debf16798830f13f151818c856675c4d738
Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 6 18:03:17 2017 +0000

    gnu: Add marco.

    * gnu/packages/mate.scm (marco): New variable.

commit 647e1d55d2b4f4f5a53d88aeac98d242e4ab108b
Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 6 18:29:40 2017 +0000

    gnu: Add mate-terminal.

    * gnu/packages/mate.scm (mate-terminal): New variable.

commit ccde857f1e6bd7f059fde60d229b5df5f79e75c3
Author: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 6 17:22:41 2017 +0000

    gnu: Add caja.

    * gnu/packages/mate.scm (caja): New variable.
    
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