diff --git a/mate-applets.spec b/mate-applets.spec
index bfb1ce3..393fb67 100644
--- a/mate-applets.spec
+++ b/mate-applets.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,32 @@
+# Conditional for release and snapshot builds. Uncomment for release-builds.
+# %%global rel_build 1
+
+# This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
+%global branch 1.7
+
+# Settings used for build from snapshots.
+%{!?rel_build:%global commit c3b48ea39ab358b45048e300deafaa3f569748ad}
+%{!?rel_build:%global commit_date 20140211}
+%{!?rel_build:%global shortcommit %(c=%{commit};echo ${c:0:7})}
+%{!?rel_build:%global git_ver git%{commit_date}-%{shortcommit}}
+%{!?rel_build:%global git_rel .git%{commit_date}.%{shortcommit}}
+%{!?rel_build:%global git_tar %{name}-%{version}-%{git_ver}.tar.xz}
+
 Name:           mate-applets
-Version:        1.7.1
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Version:        %{branch}.2
+#Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        0.1%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 Summary:        MATE Desktop panel applets
 License:        GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
 URL:            http://mate-desktop.org
 Source0:        http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.6/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+# for downloading the tarball use 'spectool -g -R mate-applets.spec'
+# Source for release-builds.
+%{?rel_build:Source0:     http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/%{branch}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz}
+# Source for snapshot-builds.
+%{!?rel_build:Source0:    http://git.mate-desktop.org/%{name}/snapshot/%{name}-%{commit}.tar.xz#/%{git_tar}}
+
 #Add patch to fix cpufreq compilation (Thanks Wolfgang)
 Patch0:  cpufreq.patch
 
@@ -40,9 +61,12 @@ Requires: hicolor-icon-theme
 MATE Desktop panel applets
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%setup -q%{!?rel_build:n %{name}-%{commit}}
+
 %patch0 -p1 -b .cpufreq
-autoreconf -fi
+# needed for cpufreq patch
+#autoreconf -fi
+NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 
 %build
 %configure   \
@@ -143,6 +167,10 @@ fi
 %{_datadir}/pixmaps/mate-cpufreq-applet
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Feb 11 2014 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> 1.7.2-0.1.git20140211.c3b48ea
+- update to git snapshot from 2014.02.11
+- add improved snapshot usage
+
 * Sun Feb 09 2014 Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@fedoraproject.org> 1.7.1-1
 - Update to 1.7.1