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Cinnamon 1.8 brings more “spice” to the desktop

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distributions with alternative desktops GNOME GNOME Shell and after elementary OS have to talk about Linux Mint and Cinnamon , who yesterday also had the latest version, after more than seven months development.

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Changes in Cinnamon

1.8? Quite a lot, judging by the extensive release announcement, which any interested party should lose because many screenshot, you both like. Even so, we will make a summary the juiciest :

started by Nemo File Browser . The fork of Nautilus continues to improve and now integrates better with the rest of the desktop, receives visual and practical improvements, to hide the side panel easily switch between different views of files or directly check the status bar available disk space.

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screensaver Linux Mint itself gains a new feature that should be seen in operation, because that style reminds some “mobile” show notifications on screen lock or, in this case, the PC screen saver. The control center , meanwhile, is now independent, and does not require GNOME Control Center to use.

preguntabais you that where are the spices, here they come. Although first we must mention the desklets introduces Cinnamon 1.8. Neither more nor less than the applets or widgets desktop “whole life”-you can call plasmoids if you prefer. Need I explain more? These applets embedded in the desktop default representatives have a watch, a framework for viewing images and a launcher (presumably application), but you can expect more of the community.

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So, the mask-and more and more than that, Linux Mint has right now applets (this is for the panel), desklets, items and options, and to install anything, you had to navigate through the website of Cinnamon … until now. And it presents Cinnamon Spices Manager 1.8 a very visual style manager KNewStuff to install the various components from the comfort of a local application.

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Other enhancements in this release include better detection of rendering, better setup hot corners of the desktop (the corners that are used for some action, such as exposure of the windows) and the final farewell to GNOME Fallback . Any sudden explosion will Metacity desktop ‘bareback’, since it may restart Cinnamon.

And these are the main novelties of Cinnamon 1.8, but surely there will be many little details to discover. A wait for Linux Mint 15 to do it, then. However, I can not close this post without sharing a thought into words, Nemo, screensavers, desklets (gDesklets?) … You’d Metacity fleeing something.

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Cinnamon Manjaro Community Edition: hello and goodbye

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if we had enough with the news yesterday about Cinnarch, history repeats itself in the form of Manjaro Cinnamon Community Edition , which as its name suggests is one of the flavors of Manjaro maintained by community as last-in every way-version was released last night.

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As indicated in the official announcement, this release is a kind of special gift for users of Cinnamon. Members who will not arrive in future versions this desktop interface as it happened with Cinnarch, the delay between the developers of Linux Mint and Arch Linux updates have been impossible to keep the invention … All because of GNOME, which is breaking everything with each new version.

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farewell Cinnamon thrives Community Edition base Arch Linux with GNOME 3.6 and Cinnamon 1.7.3 , in addition to other typical components (more on Manjaro when you leave the main edition, which is coming soon). In the official announcement you have a much more detailed article that, including download links, if you want to give it a touch before it disappears.

Because that is another: what will happen to Cinnarch and Cinnamon Manjaro when put Arch Linux GNOME 3.8 in stable repository?

Cinnamon leaves Cinnarch by GNOME, name change in sight

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a while something like a new wave of distributions based on Arch Linux whose main differentiation with his mother distro is to provide easier installation and-something that also makes it distinguish between them, the dedication to a particular desktop environment. Manjaro is the case with Xfce, although the project has been introduced as alternatives has grown, it is also the case Cinnarch, which, as its name suggests, puts on an Arch Linux Cinnamon , Linux Mint mask that you put on GNOME 3.

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However, the future of Cinnarch not pass nor Cinnamon or very likely to still be called equal . It’s what they say on the official blog of the project and have their good reasons for such a drastic change. Apparently, Cinnamon is the best option for it, but the developers of Linux Mint are almost a year behind the bleeding edge of Arch Linux, thus maintaining everything working correctly becomes too costly task.

So while Arch Linux is preparing to welcome GNOME 3.8 in brief, the Cinnamon team is still in the process of migrating tools to work with the current version of the desktop environment. A difficult situation to keep it ends: Cinnarch will use GNOME 3.8 and GNOME Shell on Arch Linux , modeled rolling release feature.

given a change of such a level, those responsible for the distribution have been consistent and ask their users if should rename the project , and at that point it appears that the feedback and going to be.

If you’re out to try this Arch Linux cinnamon flavored, last week released their latest version, which is forecast to break soon.

Fedora 19 may use Cinnamon as default desktop

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after the appearance of Fedora 18, Fedora 19 development has already begun to take shape and has done several debates over the packages to use. One of its innovations could be singular: the use of Cinnamon as a desktop environment instead of the traditional GNOME 3 / GNOME Shell.

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Phoronix

count, which link to the official wiki proposal Fedora 19. There he explained the reasons , all already known:

“GNOME 3 interface is substantially different from the traditional desktop interfaces for Linux and Windows. While it is good to investigate new concepts in the user interface, many users prefer to have a traditional interface to which they are accustomed. “

The idea is precisely

choose Cinnamon because the look of the interface is much more traditional and not give up the advantages of the components of GNOME 3. Linux Mint has done very well with this component they developed , so it might be so with Fedora.