After 6 months of development formed user environment. cinnamon.linuxmint.com/”>cinnamon 5.6 , in which the Linux Mint distribution developers are developing the Gnome Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Window Manager Mutter, aimed at providing the environment in the classical GNOME 2 style with supporting successful elements interactions from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components are delivered as an periodically synchronized force forces, not connected by external dependencies with GNOME. The new release of Cinnamon will be proposed in the Linux Mint 21.1 distribution, which is planned to be released in December.
- , on the desktop, by default, the icon of “Home”, “Computer”, “Trash” and “Network” (through the settings can be returned) are hidden on the desktop. The “Home” icon has replaced the button in the panel and the section with the chosen mainly menu, and the icons “Computer”, “Trash” and “Network” are rarely and quickly available through the file manager. Smontated drives and files placed in the ~/desktop catalog, as before are shown on the desktop.
- The code is redesigned to remove applications from the main menu – if the current user is enough to delete the administrator’s password is now not requested. For example, without entering a password, you can delete programs in Flatpak format or labels on local applications. Synaptic and the update manager are transferred to the use of PKEXEC to remember the entered password, which when performing several operations allows you to request a password only once.
- proposed Corner Bar’s applet, which is located on the right side of the panel and replaced the show-deesktop applet, instead of which the separator is now placed between the menu call button and the task list. The new applet allows you to tie different actions to press different mouse buttons, for example, you can display the contents of the desktop without windows, show desklets or cause switching interfaces between windows and virtual desktop. Placement in the corner of the screen allows you to easily position the mouse pointer on the applite. The applet also makes it possible to quickly place files on the desktop, regardless of how many windows openly, for which it is enough to drag the necessary files to the applet area.
/center> /center> - In the NEMO file manager in the mode of viewing the list of files with the display of icons, only the name is now highlighted for the selected files, and the icon remains as it is.
- Pictograms representing the desktop are now turned vertically.
/Media reports cited above.