Missing Sticky Notes Applet in MATE for Trusty

[Alex]

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and MATE Desktop from your PPA repo.
I see Sticky Notes Applet is missing in this repo. This applet was always in mate-applets package and this package is installed, but I can't add this applet to panel - I can't find it in applets list.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Yes, I noticed this myself the other day. Stick Notes applet is currently missing from the Debian packages and therefore also missing from Ubuntu. I will raise this with the MATE packaging team for Debian.

[Alex (alexlsh)]

Please inform me about progress with this bug. May be for you this is low importance bug, but for me this is critical bug. I can't upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 because of this bug. Thanks for any help.

[Alex (alexlsh)]

Quote:
"If you wish to continue using stickynotes, please recompile MATE-Applets with -enable-stickynotes and your stickynotes applets should reappear."
Please rebuild mate-applets package with -enable-stickynotes. This simple solution fix this bug.

[RobertZenz (robert-zenz)]

I'd like to ask what the status of this is? Has sticky-notes been officially deprecated/dropped?

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Sticky Notes has not been dropped.

I've just uploaded a new mate-applets package for Trusty to my PPA. I'd be interested to know if Stick Notes is now working on Trusty. I've also issued a request to sync mate-applets from Debian unstable to Ubuntu Utopic.

  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-applets/+bug/1378427

[RobertZenz (robert-zenz)]

@Alex: That looks like some baggage from quite some time ago, and has been removed. But looking at this I would not be surprised if the missing applet turns out to be a packaging hiccup because of that.

[Alex (alexlsh)]

Sticky Notes has not dropped and if you look to Mate roadmap (http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/roadmap), you can see new feature added to Sticky Notes applet in new Mate version 1.8.x. Mate developers continue working on this applet.

@Martin Wimpress: I've just tested Sticky Notes on Trusty and I see it work now. Thank you. I always have Trusty installed in Virtualbox for testing, if you need to test something on Trusty, you can ask me any time.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

@alexlsh Thanks for the confirmation. I'll close this issue as I can do nothing more to influence the sync request I've fileed for Utopic.

[RobertZenz (robert-zenz)]

Yes, I can also confirm that it is now in the packages, thank you very much.

I just asked if it was dropped because I found quite confusing talk about how it was optional.