MATE 1.14 has been released and the development is now focused on MATE 1.15 which will eventually be MATE 1.16 release this year (someday around September-November since they are targeting for Ubuntu 16.10 and Fedora 25 release).

My future plan is to provide MATE 1.16 for Slackware 14.2 since it's relatively new and all the deps are still met. MATE 1.16 will bring more GTK+3 porting besides some small new features according to the ROADMAP.

Users who can't wait to try the new MATE 1.16 can start helping by upgrading to MATE 1.15 which i have uploaded to the usual repository. It now lives under "current" directory where i have prepared two options: a mix build between GTK+2 and GTK+3 and full GTK+3 build. I only provided binary packages for x86_64 architecture for now, but building it from master branch will only take 1-2h depending on your machine specs.

Highlight of MATE 1.15 so far:
* Bump all packages to 1.15.x
* Add new deps: libgxps for atril to support XPS file format
* Add new flag for atril to support DVI format (it uses tetex's kpathsea)
* Add new deps: vte3 for mate-terminal (2.91 APIs)
* Add new deps for vte3: vala
* Engrampa, mate-notification-daemon, mate-polkit, mate-terminal and mate-session-manager are now GTK+3 only
* Enable introspection in caja and mate-desktop
* Enable gdict applet in mate-utils
* Enable IPv6, stickynotes, and polkit support in mate-applets

Additional changes for full GTK+3 build:
* Add new deps: libunique3 (replacing libunique)
* Add new deps: glade
* Add new deps: gtksourceview3 (replacing gtksourceview)
* Removed deps: pygtksourceview
* Atril: Use webkit2gtk for ePUB support

You can use slackpkg+ to help you upgrade to this release, but please read the UPGRADE.TXT provided in the directory.

Working great on my x220!

@willysr I guess you messed something there, looking at folder name:

http://slackware.uk/msb/14.2/1.14/x86/

X86? For real? As in: installable on Slackware? What happened with you?

He always said he was going to provide a 32bit version once 14.2 was released... I guess you just forgot about that part and just remembered he didn't provide it for -current.

Your sense of entitlement still never ceases to amaze me (I should get used it it, but for some reason, I always forget just how entitled you feel you are).

I'm fine, thanks
Now i should be asking: "What happened with you?"

Thanks, Willy: I'm still using MSB 1.10 on 14.1, and now that I'm about to upgrade to 14.2 I don't know whether to go to MSB 1.14 or wait a while and go straight to 1.16 I'll test these SlackBuilds if I get the chance.

Your propensity for behaving like a complete arse towards Slackware's biggest contributors is staggering.

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If you prefer a stable release, go for 1.14
if you don't mind a little bit of challenge, go for 1.15

it doesn't change much (1.14 -> 1.15), so it won't be too much difference, except that some components are now in GTK+3 and there are some new deps along with small improvements on some components

Hi Willy!

Been testing the GTK3 build for a couple of days. I wanted to note a few things that I have noticed.

* If sound events are enabled, you can get rapid sound events when you open the appearance window. I have a lot of themes and it beeps for like a good 10 seconds at least.

* Also under Appearance, when customizing the theme, the color tabs, no colors show in the options.

* Pop up highlights when hovering over icons or menu do not work unless software compositing manager is enabled.

* Caja, if you switch the location bar to editable, the box is rather small in comparison with the application. It's a problem when dealing with long paths.

Other than that, I really like how the change to gtk3 is going.

Hi

A new caja 1.15.2 has been released, but i didn't built it for GTK+3 yet.
This is the changelog, i hope it fixed some of your issues:

It's now uploaded for both 1.15 and 1.15-gtk3.
please help test the new version

Rebuilding everything right now. Will report back later today.

stormtracknole: can you post a screenshot for "Pop up highlights when hovering over icons or menu do not work unless software compositing manager is enabled." issue?

Thanks

Here the selecting colors problem:

mate-colors-problem

The other one is going to be a little bit more tricky to get. The mate build is almost done though. I'll check and see if the issues were fix there.

stormtracknole: until upstream find a permanent fix for this issue, i will probably disable the "color" tab since it's not usable at this moment. I'm testing the patch from Fedora's maintainer.

I can confirm that your latest update fixed EVERY single issue. Awesome!