

#Debian cinnamon professional#
Having left Gnome3 for its complete lack of usability for professional users, I escaped to Cinnamon and found a good home there for quite some time - using modern technology but keeping the UI changes conservative. I only occasionally tried new versions, but never gave them a real-world test. Since my switch to KDE / Plasma, I haven't used Cinnamon in months.

And GNOME? Well, many use it, but its applications are not as rich as those of KDE and do not seem intended for "power users" ". The Cinnamon edition of Debian will go ahead… if someone picks up the gauntletĪs a user, what happened to Preining is the same thing that has happened to many of us: the KDE / Plasma versions 3 and 4 gave many problems, so he didn't use them in a long time.

The reason for all this? You are no longer using the desktop developed by Linux Mint because it seems to you that the KDE is much better, impression shared by the author of this article. The one who was supporting him was Norbert Preining, but, just like himself has reported, it will no longer and will not work on the Cinnamon edition of Debian for future releases, such as the Cinnamon 5.0 which It has been released earlier this June. Among them, some of us were using Linux Mint for a while because their desktop was fine, and that is something that the main maintainer of the Cinnamon edition of Debian, but the time has come to take another leap and say goodbye.ĭebian is also available with the "Cinnamon" desktop. Many of us spent years using GNOME on Ubuntu, but the earthquake of the move to Unity made many of us look for alternatives. # gpg –export 3EE67F3D0FF405B2 > 3EE67F3D0FF405B2.There are many desktops for Linux-based operating systems, but most users opt for a few. # gpg –keyserver –recv-keys 3EE67F3D0FF405B2 Open the terminal and run the following commands It will generate a configuration screen for you, automatically. It will allow you to access your settings just as easily as you access values in an array. It will set up your settings and default values for you, automatically. Cinnamon 1.8 features a settings API which will do all the work for you. If you’re an Applet/Desklet developer, don’t use gsettings anymore. applets, desklets, themes, extensions) straight from your desktop.
#Debian cinnamon install#
In Cinnamon 1.8 you can install “spices” (i.e.

The same way you can add applets to your panel, you can add desklets to your desktop.
#Debian cinnamon android#
KDE calls them Plasmoids, Android calls them Widgets, in Cinnamon they’re called “Desklets”. You no longer need to use Gnome Control Center. One of its particularities is that you can define an away message before locking up your screen.Īll configuration modules are now present in Cinnamon Settings. Under each place, if applicable, a small bar indicates how much space is used.Ĭinnamon now features its own screensaver. Its user interface was heavily modified and its behavior was adapted to integrate better with Cinnamon.You can now easily hide the sidebar and switch back and forth between places and treeview. Cinnamon uses Muffin, a fork of the GNOME 3 window manager Mutter, as its window manager from Cinnamon 1.2 onwards What is new in version 1.8 It attempts to provide a more traditional user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. It is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint.
