After 5 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.2 user environment has been finalized. This environment, which is developed by the Linux Mint distribution community, is a fork of the GNOME Shell, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager. It aims to provide a classic GNOME 2-style interface while incorporating useful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these are delivered as a periodically synchronized fork that is not externally dependent on GNOME. The new release of Cinnamon will be included in the upcoming Linux Mint 20.3 distribution, which is planned for release at the end of December.
Key innovations:
- In the Mint-X theme, the style of the notification block and the panel in the Nemo file manager has been optimized. Instead of two separate themes for dark and light headers, a single theme that dynamically changes color based on the selected mode has been implemented. Support for a combined theme that mixes dark headers with light windows has been discontinued. The display of applications with separate dark interfaces in a light-themed environment has been improved (this refers to applications like Celluloid, Xviewer, Pix, Hypnotix, and GNOME Terminal, which have their own light and dark theme switchers).
The Mint-Y theme now offers a light panel by default (the Mint-X theme retains a dark one) and includes a new set of icons displayed on icons.
- The window title appearance has been changed — the size of the window control buttons has been increased, and additional padding around the icons has been added for easier clicking. The display of shadows has been redesigned to unify the appearance of the windows, regardless of whether they are drawn on the application side (CSD) or. serverThe corners of the windows have been rounded.
- Gray has been used to highlight active elements regardless of the chosen color theme.
- GTK4 support has been improved.
- A confirmation dialog has been added when attempting to delete a panel.
- A setting has been added to disable scrolling in the switch applet. virtual desktops.
- A setting has been added to disable window labels.
- In the notification output applet, a setting has been added to disable the display of the notification counter in the system tray.
- Automatic updating of the icon for the grouped window list has been ensured when a new window is added to the group.
- The menu for all applications now displays symbolic icons, and application buttons are hidden by default.
- Support for the Evolution server has been added to the calendar.
- Animated effects have been simplified.
Source: opennet.ru
