Polo Debuts As New Wayland Compositor For MATE Desktop

For those fond of the GNOME 2 forked MATE desktop but wanting to take it into the native Wayland world, Polo 1.0 released today as a new compositor option for modern desktop computing with MATE. Polo is a Wayland compositor for MATE that tries to behave similarly to MATE on X11 with its Marco compositor, which was a fork of GNOME 2's Metacity. Polo builds off Wayland's Weston library while leveraging Marco's window management policies, settings, themes, and more. There is XWayland support too. With Polo you can even enjoy some GNOME 2 classics like the desktop cube, wobbly windows, and more. Polo has been in development by MATE user Kerem Söke for modernizing MATE with Wayland while still retaining the same behavior and feel as under X11. Those curious about the Polo 1.0 compositor for MATE can learn more via the project's GitHub. Additional details are also available on the Ubuntu Discourse.