After six months of development user environment release , within which the community of developers of the Linux Mint distribution is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2-style environment with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell. Cinnamon builds on the GNOME components, but these components are shipped as a periodically synchronized fork with no external dependencies to GNOME. The new release of Cinnamon will be offered in the Linux Mint 20 distribution, scheduled for release in June.
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- support for fractional scaling, which allows you to choose the optimal size of elements on screens with a high pixel density (HiDPI), for example, you can increase the displayed interface elements not by 2 times, but by 1.5.
- The dialog for setting monitor parameters has been redesigned. Added the ability to select the screen refresh rate and support for assigning custom scaling factors for each monitor, which solves the problem of working when connecting a regular and HiDPI monitor at the same time.
- The Mint-Y theme introduces a new palette, in which, by manipulating hue and saturation, brighter colors are selected, but without losing readability and comfort. New color sets Pink and Aqua are offered.
- Added support for the StatusNotifier API (Qt and Electron apps) to the XappStatusIcon applet, (Ubuntu indicators) and libAyatana (indicators for Unity), which will allow XappStatusIcon to be used as a single mechanism for minimizing to the system tray, without requiring support for different APIs on the desktop side. The change will improve support for placing indicators in the system tray, applications based on the Electron platform and the protocol (GTK-technology for placing icons in the system tray). XAppStatusIcon outsources icon, tooltip, and label rendering to the applet side, and uses DBus to pass information through applets, as well as click events.
Applet-side rendering provides quality icons of any size and solves display problems. - Performance optimization of the code for processing thumbnails in the Nemo file manager. Icon generation is now asynchronous, and icons are loaded at a lower priority than directory navigation (the idea is that content processing is prioritized, and icon loading is done as a leftover, which can significantly speed up work at the expense of longer display of stub icons ).
- A new utility has been prepared for exchanging files between two computers on a local network, using encryption for data transfer.
Source: opennet.ru