README

mate-panel
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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.

Installation
============

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

Build dependencies
==================

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)

How to report bugs
==================

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.