WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--Menu: Time and Date menu item broken

[jenom]

When I go to MENU--ADMINISTRATION-TIME AND DATE and click on it, --nothing happens !
Manually executed a command for this menu item:

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# mate-time-admin

** (mate-time-admin:26596): ERROR **: Could not load /usr/share/mate-system-tools/ui/common.ui

Trace/breakpoint trap

Any suggestion, how to fix this broken menu item ?

Thanks!

[jenom]

Well, I found the solution!
needed to install "mate-system-tools-common" package......some reason, it was not done automatically !
now "Time and Date" has an icon in the menu, it opens but no changes can be made
used "Edit Menu" to modify its command line to "gksu mate-time-admin"
now it is working as it suppose to be
another WATTOS-R8 -MATE1.8.0 problem fixed

[biffster]

Thanks Jenom for sharing.

This was our first Debian release (and Mate 1.8 from 1.6) (converted from Ubuntu) so it has a few warts. I suspect the next version will be smoother.

Regards,
biff

[jenom]

thanks for your reply
According to some memory usage testings, MATE desktop uses about 56 Mb of memory resources, compared to 96 Mb of XFCE4. Its menus are better looking and has an easy to use menu editor.

A dozen of applet can be added to its panel, similar to XFCE's panel applet.
As a bonus, even Mint-Menu can be added as an applet, to use as a main menu.

I am not the fan of he attached packages (caja, pluma, etc....), prefer to use a lighter  pacmanfm and leafpad (from LXDE)

WATTOS is a very promising distro, -- I have tried many Debian based (point Linux, seduction, crunchbang, sparky, etc...)-- and WATTOS turned out to be one of the best one.

I only tried the  MATE version, and as you said, this still needs a little bit of ironing.
Keep up a good work and looking forward to try out a next release !