mate-panel contains the MATE panel, the libmate-panel-applet library and several applets:
the MATE panel is the area on your desktop from which you can run applications and applets, and perform other tasks.
the libmate-panel-applet library allows to develop small applications which may be embedded in the panel. These are called applets. Documentation for the API is available with gtk-doc.
the applets supplied here include the Workspace Switcher, the Window List, the Window Selector, the Notification Area, the Clock and the infamous 'Wanda the Fish'.
You may download updates to the package from:
http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/
mate-panel is a fork of gnome-panel.
See the file 'INSTALL'. If you are not using a released version of mate-panel (for example, if you checked out the code from git), you first need to run :
git submodule init git submodule update ./autogen.sh
On Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (daily 2018-01-30) build-essential autopoint mate-common libglib2.0-dev yelp-tools gobject-introspection libgtk-3-dev libmate-desktop-dev libmate-menu-dev libwnck-3-dev libmateweather-dev
For work-in-progress Wayland support gtk-layer-shell (https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell)
Bugs should be reported to the MATE bug tracking system:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues
You will need to create an account for yourself.
Please read the HACKING file for information on where to send changes or bugfixes for this package.