After six months of development release of the user environment , within which the Linux Mint distribution community develops a fork of the GNOME Shell, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a desktop environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with successful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components are provided as a periodically synchronized fork, independent of external dependencies with GNOME. The new Cinnamon release will be offered in the Linux Mint 20 distribution, which is scheduled for release in June.
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- support for fractional scaling, which allows you to pick the optimal size of elements on high pixel density (HiDPI) screens, for example, you can increase interface elements not by 2 times, but by 1.5.
- The monitor settings dialog has been redesigned. The ability to select screen refresh rates has been added, as well as support for assigning custom scaling factors for each monitor, which solves the issue of working with both standard and HiDPI monitors connected at the same time.
- The Mint-Y theme introduces a new palette that, through adjustments in hue and saturation, provides brighter colors without sacrificing readability and comfort. New color sets Pink and Aqua have been proposed.
- Support for the StatusNotifier API (Qt and Electron applications) has been added to the XappStatusIcon applet, (Ubuntu indicators) and libAyatana (indicators for Unity), which will allow using XappStatusIcon as a unified mechanism for minimizing to the system tray, without requiring support for different APIs on the desktop side. This change will enhance the support for placing indicators of Electron-based applications and the xembed protocol in the system tray. Applet-side rendering provides high-quality icons of any size and solves display issues. (GTK technology for placing icons in the system tray).
Applet-side rendering provides high-quality icons of any size and addresses display issues. - Performance optimization of the code for thumbnail processing in the Nemo file manager has been completed. Icon generation is now done asynchronously, and icons are loaded with a lower priority compared to navigating directories (the idea is to prioritize content processing, with icon loading happening on a residual basis, which significantly speeds up operations at the cost of a longer display time for placeholder icons).
- A new utility has been created for file sharing between two computers on a local network, utilizing encryption for data transmission.
Source: opennet.ru
