Version has been released 1.6.1 de Cinnamon, which has the purpose of polishing and correcting some errors presented in the previous release, as well as adding new functionalities.
Some of the changes in Cinnamon 1.6.1:
- Updated translations
- Country flags are added in keyboard applet
- Added Songbird support in the sound applet
- Fixed: Administration category absent in app menu
- Fixed: Blurred pixels in Alt-Tab preview
- Fixed: Removed the workspace while editing their names.
- Fixed: Scrolling in window list applet brings all windows to active workspace
- Fixed: Panels visible in full screen mode with Firefox
- Performance improvement: Network Manager applet consumes less CPU usage
- Performance improvement: Calendar applet consumes less CPU usage
- Fixed: Menu Bar issues with all Java programs
Changes in Nemo 1.0.2:
- The Dropbox Extension is now stable
- The Fileroller Extension is now stable
- Configurable units (default decimal, as well as duration decimal, binary and long binary)
- Fixed: Use Nautilus style to render desktop when theme is not supported by Nemo
Apparently the repositories have not yet been updated, since at this time the one corresponding to LMDE. I guess between today and tomorrow we can update 😀
!!!!!AMAZING!!!!! hopefully it will arrive soon at Tuquito Linux Guaraní 😛
Hmm, interesting ...
Well, let's hope that LMDE is true, because when they released 1.6 there was nothing at all.
http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian
it's because it was put in the romeo repositories (unstable)
It is good that they are polishing the imperfections of Cinnamon so quickly, at this rate I think it will become a more than viable option for many.
Ohhhhh… I just updated Cinnamon 1.6.1, it seems that they did not put all the packages, something happened. I lost the entire Cinnamon desktop on ubuntu 12.04. The 1.6.0 was relatively good…. How do I put it back? Ahhhh he un-installed a lot of things and told me that I had to do an update of the complete distro !!! grrrr….
Cinnamon did not quite convince me, perhaps it would be better to continue betting on mate.
Well, I had to reinstall cinnamon, and everything seems fine, but I don't see the language flag.
Hello good, how can I install in LM 13 Cinnamon ?, or update,
regards
As I was already vulgarly called a "dis-potricar" of cinnamon 1.6 for criticizing it without testing it, something that now surprises me because many of the deficiencies of its version 1.5.2 were not solved in 1.6, and despite the fact that there was talk of the spectacular figure of 800 bugs; however this time I come with my homework done.
There is something that Cinnamon has not corrected since its version 1.1.2 and it is the slowness of the launch of its menu, even the windows start button is more agile, I do not know if that Clem considers normal but sometimes I felt disappointed not be sure you have clicked correctly. Maybe it's because I used it in Fedora (I say ironically). A long time ago I lost confidence in linuxmint projects, in their outburst of motivation for their success in distrowatch, now they have been collapsed due to the number of fronts they have open and that they cannot serve effectively. In Cuba they would have said: he who covers a lot does little squeeze.
The other, some extensions or apples are not well taken care of, as is the case of Coverflow Alt-Tab that in Fedora I have not been able to make it work, it will be because it is for version 1.4.1, although they also claim that it worked for version 1.5.2 in Fedora, this I could not verify at the time. I hope someone was luckier than me.
Muffin sometimes works strangely, for example, sometimes it launched an application and it appeared correctly active in the windows-list, however it was not displayed on the screen, so I had to minimize it from the windows-list itself and then maximize it. To all these, I do not remember what I did but in one of his outbursts he began to behave unstable for seconds, and I had no choice but to restart the Cinnamon.
Ahhh that is another, be careful with restarting the Cinnamon a lot, which is very sensitive, it becomes pupa and forces a restart, and this if I remember how it was, I was editing the "gray" theme that comes by default (By the way, coming from LinuxMint the artwork should be improved). And let it not be said that I put the prawn editing the css that when I restarted everything was perfect and just as I had edited it. Pijadas. Luckily the most important thing he was running at that moment was Trasmission.
Step to crack more, I only have one maxim, the GUIs are oriented to facilitate the use of the machine for the user, not to add difficulties, surely many of the problems that I have mentioned for many users are not too serious or have an easy resolution but it is that a large part of mortals do not have to get involved in it. The other, I am tired of getting faulty projects that need corrections immediately, GNU / Linux projects always have to inspire quality and reliability. Apparently I will have to dedicate myself to throwing the cards because in the other post of cinnamon 1.6 I already had a premonition that something could happen. And I am not saying that the launches should be pristine, they always have to make subsequent corrections typical of situations not considered in the tests, but it is that those outbursts due to continuous launches to always be a trending topic can undermine the trust of users and without the User confidence to the recycle bin will be the hours spent by the developers and they will be unrecoverable.
Of course there are problems, the desktop is in development, when it has the same functionalities that we had in the old gnome, I suppose that they begin to take the problems more seriously, which have already removed a few and of course there are more missing. For the desktop to be faster it is necessary that the applets be preloaded in ram memory, and then only show them. The menu is a very extensive code that has to be read dynamically, remember that it is based on java script, so it is not precompiled and in the case of the menu it is a lot of code, hence the delay. The truth is that you cannot expect the same speed of response from a precompiled code (let's say written in C ++) that a java script code can give. It is ease of changes on the desktop, against slow response, at least for now. In windows gadgets (also based on java script) disappeared for windows 8, I think for three main reasons. One waste a lot of memory, two tend to create security problems and three are slow, notice when you have many, the time it takes to load. As both are based on java script, they have basically the same problems. I do not expect much more, although I think that if you can improve efficiency and bugs over time. In Cuba, colleague I would have told you, whoever is not willing to do something else will never have something better ... Greetings ...
I totally agree with you about the applets or extensions, the format adopted is quite questionable in itself, in fact in gnome-shell I use the minimum ones due to the delay effect at startup. At first glance it may be a few seconds but in the calculation that I do, its effect with respect to the system load or gnome-shell-vanilla, I get very unfavorable accounts towards its use. In fact, if I would like something about it, it is to have a utility that allows ordering the loading times of the extensions. Regarding security, I am pleased that we also share the opinion, this point is really critical.
However and I give an example, the AxeMenu extension of gnome-shell has a little more than 1600 lines in js as well, (not counting the css code and translations), of course the cinnamon menu seems much more complex to me ( although I have never really looked at it), but I insist that its response time is regrettable. If a score were made of the response times of the menus of the multiple environments (without distinction of OS), that of cinnamon would go to the tail. I was one of the first cinnamon enthusiasts and I have known him since 1.1.2 (if memory serves me correctly) and this menu item has been dragging since then, and that bothers me, that they work on add-ons that are hardly useful while important parts are left for later. And I say, I am not interested in the thousands of nonsense that are added, I am not a fanboy or Apple or applets or Minority Report, I just want a menu that does what it is told at the time it is told, because for that * **** it is better to restore the «Activities». It is that sometimes it seems to me that these projects rave about what their true function is, seriously, it is perhaps more comfortable to launch the applications from the terminal than from the cinnamon menu.
Let's see, regarding Cuba, hehe, I want a better alternative than gnome-shell, and at the time the idea of Cinnamon was seductive because I thought it would give the gnome people a touch of attention about where they should go , but it is that at the rate that Cinnamon goes, the idea is being reinforced that with its defects it is better gnome-shell. In my opinion Cinnamon should take into account that these releases with a clear objective of "looking for looks" (hey, I'm here, listen to me) can sink you. Regards.
Hmm, from what I see what bothers you the most is the bastard menu ... Well, have you already tried the third-party menus that are on the website, very similar to those of windows7? The truth is that since I have an X6, I do not even feel the delay, but I assume that if it is felt in other hardware. I also have a mini that I hardly use and since it has a narrower screen resolution the menu on it looks good screwed up. So I had to change the menu and, incidentally, translate some things from the new menu into Spanish, so that it would open the folders, since I was looking for them in English. If you want, I'll give you the final result and try it or try the original and if you like it I'll give you mine that is already translated into Spanish, just send me your email, if you are interested. A greeting.
Cinnamon 1.6 is in the Romeo repositories, it may still contain errors, or have defects. Although the criticisms add up, let them correct them and then we criticize them with more foundation.
Today the final version is 1.4.
Themes, applets and extensions are still being migrated to version 1.6.
That is for Linux Mint, in the Fedora repos is the latest stable version, currently still 1.6.0. That those of Linux Mint have a more conservative policy with respect to their own projects seems to me that it is something that from Fedora should also look and not go crazy drinking poisoned tea cups.
I imagine that for a matter of version control it remains in Romeo, because in theory 1.6 should be as stable as 1.4, unless 1.4 is an LTS (now that the term is so fashionable, let's see if in 5 years they maintain it), otherwise they would be quite hypocritical in distributing software that they consider unstable as if it were stable. The good news is that Cinnamon is as easy to install as it is to uninstall.
With regard to applets, don't let me know, they themselves have chosen that path, it's the bad thing to leave part of the work in third parties. This is for both Cinnamon and Gnome-shell. If everything were a single organized unit, these versions should be released with all their functionalities migrated. Everything has a price.
I have muffin 1,1,1, Nemo 1.0.2 and cinnamon 1.6.0…. Mmmm, why don't you put it all together at once ??? !!! I had a mess, that I had to reinstall cinnamon and muffin to leg, to recover the cinnamon desktop ...
Ashhh, muffin 1.1.1, nemo 1.0.2 and cinnamon 1.6.0, didn't they all come together ??? Why not put them all, where is cinnamon 1.6.1? I have formed a mess, it seems that because of this ...
Mmmm ... It seems that I am very desperate, hahaha cinnamon 1.6.1 is already there, and at least the menu is twice as fast as the previous version ... That's good! Let's try it !!!
😛 very good info xD I already have it updated in my distro manjaro linux cinnamon lol I updated it yesterday lol and cinnamon is better than the previous version that crashed vastly often lol
Interesting 🙂
To install Cinnamon 1 with 1.6.1 click in openSUSE you can consult this article: http://guiadelcamaleon.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/como-instalar-cinnamon-16-en-opensuse.html.
A greeting.
Clem said in a comment that he is open to working with compiz developers !!!! If they so wish, let's join our efforts to ask for it and we may have those incredible effects back ..