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The MATE control-center provides a number of extension points for applications. This package contains directories where applications can install configuration files that are picked up by the control-center utilities.
Shared code for mate-panel, mate-session, caja, etc
The mate-desktop package contains an internal library (libmatedesktop) used to implement some portions of the MATE desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the MATE user environment.
Configuration and data files for the desktop menus
This package contains the XML files that describe the menu layout for GNOME and KDE, and the .desktop files that define the names and icons of "subdirectories" in the menus.