Bug 887040

(In reply to comment #0)

> Strangely, the sister RPM mate-desktop-1.5.3-5.fc16.i686.rpm contains a
> significant number of org.mate.*.schema.xml files for
> /usr/share/glib2.0/schemas/.
> Looks a little messy to me: Why do we have a higher number in fc16 than in
> fc17?

I should have mentioned:
$ rpm -q mate-desktop
mate-desktop-1.4.1-11.fc17.x86_64

Confirmation:

I extracted the org.mate.*.schema.xml files from http://pkgs.org/fedora-16/fedora-updates-x86_64/mate-desktop-1.5.3-5.fc16.x86_64.rpm/download/ and copied them to /usr/share/glib2.0/schemas/. 

Compiled them:
$ sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Now I can logon to my MATE session without being thrown out immediately.
However, the display is flickering, apparently due to problems with the menu bar(s) to start up.

Please provide a coherent set of mate-* RPMs for fc17 urgently!

You need 1.5.5. Please run "su -c 'yum update --enable-repo=updates-testing'"

This is being pushed to stable now.

*** Bug 886974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #3)
> You need 1.5.5. Please run "su -c 'yum update --enable-repo=updates-testing'"
> 
> This is being pushed to stable now.

It is surprising that this works for you. Yum says "no such option: --enable-repo" to me ;-)

Tried
 $ su yum update mate-\* --enablerepo=updates-testing 
(I do not want to get all updates), which triggered six package updates:
 mate-desktop
 mate-desktop-devel
 mate-desktop-libs
 mate-file-manager
 mate-file-manager-extensions
 mate-settings-daemon

With these, the mate sessions works fine, besides the fact that:
 - I lost my "Appearance" settings. 
 - The panel that used to be at the bottom is set to the top.
Both could be re-edited by hand.

You're forgetting the libs. Loss of settings is expected and unfortunate behavior of switching to gsettings.

Right. It is only a workaround and works for me. I hope it makes it to stable soon. 

I confirm loss of settings is also true for the terminal. All this gnome-mate business is a big mess. I am much less confident that I will use either of them, now that I had to spend an evening with xfce4 instead and succeeded rather quickly to get all my usual widgets configured in the menu bars again.

Thanks for your quick reactions!

I cannot control upstream's decisions, only make suggestions. The decision to move to gsettings made my life easier as the package maintainer. You shouldn't lose your settings again.

libmate-1.4.0-17.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 10:42:59
libmatecanvas-1.4.0-8.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 10:27:44
libmatecomponent-1.4.0-14.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 08:43:15
mate-media-1.5.0-1.fc16	Fedora 16		 pending	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 07:56:18
mate-conf-1.4.0-21.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 07:54:02
mate-panel-1.5.2-4.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 07:35:37
mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 -1
2012-12-04 07:03:27
mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc17	Fedora 17		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 06:40:27
mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 06:28:31
mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc17	Fedora 17		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 06:14:12
mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc18	Fedora 18		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 02:51:49
mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc18	Fedora 18		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-04 02:28:33
mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc16	Fedora 16		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-03 23:16:54
mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc17	Fedora 17		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-03 23:14:51
mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc18	Fedora 18		 testing	
 stable
 0
2012-12-03 23:10:07

All put in requests for pushing to stable.

Thanks,
Dan