diff --git a/mate-base/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon-1.28.0.ebuild b/mate-base/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon-1.28.0.ebuild
index 0b485fee7b6b5..0033a6281c892 100644
--- a/mate-base/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon-1.28.0.ebuild
+++ b/mate-base/mate-settings-daemon/mate-settings-daemon-1.28.0.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.76.4
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.50:2
 	>=gnome-base/dconf-0.13.4
 	>=mate-base/libmatekbd-1.17.0
-	>=mate-base/mate-desktop-1.27.1
+	>=mate-base/mate-desktop-$(ver_cut 1-2)
 	media-libs/fontconfig:1.0
 	x11-libs/cairo
 	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2