diff --git a/desktop/mate-desktop/README b/desktop/mate-desktop/README
index bb3dff23d3..92b329000d 100644
--- a/desktop/mate-desktop/README
+++ b/desktop/mate-desktop/README
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-mate-desktop (libmate-desktop library for the MATE desktop)
-
 mate-desktop contains the libmate-desktop library, the mate-about
 program, as well as some desktop-wide documents.
diff --git a/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.SlackBuild b/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.SlackBuild
index 649c48e5ce..a6f9e13682 100644
--- a/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.SlackBuild
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for mate-desktop
 
-# Copyright 2013 Chess Griffin Raleigh, NC
-# Copyright 2013-2021 Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
-# Copyright 2023-2024 Johannes Schoepfer, Germany
+# Copyright 2013  Chess Griffin Raleigh, NC
+# Copyright 2013-2021  Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
+# Copyright 2023-2024  Johannes Schoepfer, Germany
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=mate-desktop
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.28.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.28.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -84,32 +84,30 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} +
 
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-./configure \
-  --prefix=/usr \
-  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
-  --sysconfdir=/etc \
-  --localstatedir=/var \
-  --mandir=/usr/man \
-  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
-  --disable-static \
-  --enable-shared \
-  --disable-schemas-compile \
-  --enable-introspection=auto \
-  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
-
-make
-make install DESTDIR=$PKG
-
-rm -f $PKG/{,usr/}lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/*.la
-
-find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+mkdir build
+cd build
+  CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  meson .. \
+    --buildtype=release \
+    --infodir=/usr/info \
+    --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --mandir=/usr/man \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    -Dmate-about=false \
+    -Dintrospection=true \
+    -Db_lto=true \
+    -Dstrip=true
+  "${NINJA:=ninja}"
+  DESTDIR=$PKG $NINJA install
+cd ..
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/applications
 cp $CWD/mate-mimeapps.list $PKG/usr/share/applications
 
+rm $PKG/usr/man/man1/mate-about*
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} +
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
diff --git a/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.info b/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.info
index 4363308288..a29c6da705 100644
--- a/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.info
+++ b/desktop/mate-desktop/mate-desktop.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="mate-desktop"
-VERSION="1.28.0"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.mate-desktop.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.28/mate-desktop-1.28.0.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="9cff28669b3213fdaed6536bbf42b060"
+VERSION="1.28.2"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/components/mate-desktop/"
+DOWNLOAD="https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.28/mate-desktop-1.28.2.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="3427bf8e49e4b5a91a41eba37aae3638"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
diff --git a/desktop/mate-desktop/slack-desc b/desktop/mate-desktop/slack-desc
index 2ee6e6088b..47c2610bd7 100644
--- a/desktop/mate-desktop/slack-desc
+++ b/desktop/mate-desktop/slack-desc
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ mate-desktop:
 mate-desktop:
 mate-desktop:
 mate-desktop:
-mate-desktop: https://mate-desktop.org
+mate-desktop: https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/components/mate-desktop/
 mate-desktop: