Instead of the Nautilus file manager, for instance, MATE includes Caja; instead of the GNOME terminal, there's the MATE terminal.

Several improvements were made to Caja in this latest release, in fact, including restoring the toggle button for the text-based location bar; a new button to show the difference between files in the file conflict dialog; and the ability to open bookmarks in the places side pane using the enter and space keys.

A Caja dropbox package is also now available.

File Sharing via Bluetooth

Another significant new feature in MATE 1.4 is that file sharing is now available via Bluetooth, the project team .