![]() The new control centre has mostly been introduced to make work easier for the Mint developers as the distribution keeps adding its own tools for operating-system-level tasks. This will not make a difference for many end users and most will probably not even notice that something has changed as both applications are visually very similar. Linux Mint 15 adds its own Spices management tool to simplify the process it can also be used to update installed Spices, if the Spice in question supports this.Ī new control centre application in Cinnamon replaces GNOME 3's own control centre. This new installation method replaces the previous method of downloading these components from the Cinnamon web site and installing them manually. Applets can also be installed as part of "Spices", which is Linux Mint's term for bundles of desklets, applets, themes and extensions. The included management application lists desklets from an online repository and users can install them with a few clicks. These desklets are relatively simple to write and a number of third-party ones are already available from the Linux Mint community. The new Cinnamon version also introduces support for desklets, simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be displayed on the desktop and range from clocks to comic viewers and RSS readers. Nemo has received some elegant visual refinements For experienced users, the file manager offers a number of different view modes which will make users happy who prefer an old school tree view to the more modern side bar with shortcuts that is presented by default. Little flourishes, such as a bar graph on mounted filesystems that shows how much of their space is currently being used, give Nemo its own character. ![]() With the latest version of Nemo, the Mint developers have now tackled the task of introducing user interface refinements, making the look and feel of the application blend in a lot more with the rest of the Cinnamon interface. Nemo was famously and loudly forked from GNOME's Nautilus and has added back a number of features that the GNOME developers deemed unimportant and removed. ![]() My other machines, none of which I had ever clicked on "desklets" in system-settings, never had this problem, not even once.Cinnamon 1.8 also includes a lot of visual refinement in its Nemo file manager. Purging didn't remove whatever had changed when I first played with the desklets in system-settings, but removing the desklet code from cinnamon seems to have decisively fixed it. The exception would always be an inability to convert a decimal value somwhere around but not equal to 4 to an integer, and somewhere in all the text before it was the word "desklet" which reminded me of exactly when the problem started and what might fix it. When running Cinnamon from cinnamon -replace in terminal, I would get on only those instances where the panel and hot corner were unresponsive references to a line 823 in /usr/share/ cinnamon/ js/ui/layout. js with a blank (empty) file, and deleted /usr/share/ cinnamon/ desklets entirely and the problem has yet to return. I replaced /usr/share/ cinnamon/ js/ui/desklet. Re-updated to 1.7.4, logged out and back in, and the panel freezes were back. I clicked on it, clicked on "remove this desklet" and it disappeared. Rolling back to version 1.7.1 DID help-and displayed a "system settings" desklet I had never seen before. Purging Cinnamon from a gnome-shell desktop and reinstalling did not help, nor did removing all non-default applets. I wasn't too worried about it-except from then on, the panel would on restarting cinnamon about half the time become unresponsive to the mouse, and the hot corner also disabled. On my main system, I had once tried out of curiosity to enable desklets from system settings, only to have them not display. I am running cinnamon_ 1.7.4+olivia in three systems converted from Ubuntu Raring.
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