Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets 74
An anonymous reader wrote in with news that the GNOME Shell fork, Cinnamon, released version 1.6 yesterday. The release features persistent (and nameable) workspaces, a window list applet, greatly improved notifications (they're collected in one place), improved task switchers and audio control, workspace flipping while dragging windows, and integration with their fork of Nautilus. See the release announcement for more and lots of screenshots (detailed source changelog). From the looks of it, this release is closer than ever to merging the modern Gtk3/GNOME stack with the missing functionality from previous windowing environments.
Re:Cinnamon devs have opposite attitude to GNOME3' (Score:2, Informative)
The Cinnamon developers are working hard to make a UI that is useful to the user, and that can be a part of either single task or multiple task workflow. The GNOME3 developers try to cram their views down the user's throat, and impede anyone with a multiple-task workflow. moreover, the GNOME3 devs attitude is, you want something different that used to be user-configurable before, get a developer! GNOME3 and its developers can now die, they serve no purpose and the useful work has been taken up by competent people.
I've known clem since the early mint days. This guy gets it. If only we had more competent people like him on the WINE project, we might see linux actually overtake windows.
Demo video (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a demo video [youtube.com] that shows the new changes and features.
It looks to me like they have something pretty close to the ultimate version of the Windows 95-like UI. If this had been around with this amount of polish a year ago I probably would have switched to Mint. Now that I've gotten used to Unity I don't know if I'll switch. Great work anyway!
Re:Now if only Fedora would stop pushing Gnome 3 (Score:4, Informative)
They do: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0Mzk [phoronix.com]
It's also not hard to do it yourself: http://linuxfordummies.org/installing-the-cinnamon-desktop-environment-in-fedora-16/ [linuxfordummies.org]