After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.4 user environment has been formed, 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 an environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based 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 21 distribution, scheduled for release in July.
Main innovations:
- The Muffin window manager has been ported to the fresh code base of the Metacity window manager developed by the GNOME project. The JavaScript interpreter (GJS) used by the project has been updated. These changes required significant internal processing, which was the focus of the preparation of the new branch.
- Simplified binding of actions when moving the cursor to the corners of the screen (hotcorner).
- Improved support for non-integer values ββwhen scaling.
- Implemented the concept of logical monitors where the primary monitor is not always 0.
- The xrandr applet has been migrated to use the Muffin window manager API.
- Added the ability to copy system information to the clipboard.
- The applet for changing the layout and keyboard settings has been redesigned.
- Added the ability to show additional actions in running applications in the menu applet (for example, opening incognito mode in a browser or writing a new message in an email client).
- The audio control applet provides a way to hide the microphone mute button when the microphone is not in use.
- To set up Bluetooth connections, instead of Blueberry, an add-on for GNOME Bluetooth, an interface based on Blueman, a GTK application that uses the Bluez stack, is proposed.
Source: opennet.ru