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Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2

Posted by Unknown on from the making-gnome3-usable dept.

New submitter Novin writes with exciting news from the Cinnamon project. Quoting the release announcements: "Cinnamon 1.2 is out! All APIs and the desktop itself are now fully stable! I hope you'll enjoy the many new features, the desktop effect, desktop layouts, the new configuration tool, the applets, changes, bug fixes, and improvements that went into this release. This is a huge step forward for Cinnamon." The release reintroduces desktop effects, fixes a slew of bugs, and introduces a new applet API (fixing a number of issues intrinsic to shell extensions).

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  1. great to see a UI centered on most user needs by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Clem has a fantastic mindset compared to many UI developers today, he knows what most users want, he actually reads user forums and responds with attitude of user experience being important. He'll make GNOME3 a useful base desktop

  2. Just technical question by Pecisk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Disclaimer: yes, I'm using GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell as devs intended to and I have some ironic laughts about claims that "GS/Unity devs are screwballs and don't know nothing". However, everyone uses tools best for him, so...just use it, don't go around claiming that it's best desktop for now.

    However, I have purerly technical question - why not improving GNOME 3 Panel? It's ported, code cleaned up, it's introspectable (you can write JS extentions like for GNOME Shell) and you can still keep all the goodies, including having compiz and friends.

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    1. Re:Just technical question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Clem stated that they tried to talk to gnome devs, but seems they didn't care about integrate the needed modifications to allow a desktop like cinnamon offers, because it goes against their vision of the desktop they envision. Look in the cinnamon page, the response is given "January 23, 2012 at 11:27 pm"

  3. "Cinnamon Gnome Shell Fork" by sm284614 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is one of those wonderful headline that will read as utterly bizzare nonsense to most of the world.

  4. Re:Enjoy your.... by couchslug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One advantage of Linux is you have full access to any turd you wish to polish, versus being stuck with someone else's fecal offerings!

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