After nine months of development, The guys at Linux Mint have announced the release of the new version of their Cinnamon 4.2 user environment, in which the community of your Linux Mint distribution has been developing the Gnome Shell fork, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, intended to provide the classic Gnome 2 environment with support for successful Gnome interaction items. Shell.
Cinnamon is based on Gnome components, but these components are shipped as a fork periodically synced, not bound by dependencies external to Gnome, It comes with a friendly user interface with many customization options through the System Settings window.
The system configuration includes configurable installation options for the Cinnamon desktop, themes, hot corners, applets, workspaces, launchers, and more.
Main new features of Cinnamon 4.2
In this new version of the environment new widgets added to create configurators, simplifying the writing of the configuration dialogs and making their design more complete and consistent with the Cinnamon interface.
Reworking mintMenu configuration with new widgets has reduced code size three times due to the fact that one line of code is now sufficient to configure most of the options;
In MintMenu, the search bar moves to the top. In the Add-in for displaying recently opened files, documents are now displayed first.
Significantly increased the performance of the MintMenu component, which now runs twice as fast. The menu settings interface has been completely rewritten, which translates to the python-xapp API.
Nemo's file manager simplifies the process of sharing directories with Samba. The nemo-share plugin, if necessary, provides the installation of packages with samba, places the user in the sambashare group and verifies, changes the access rights to a shared directory, without the need to perform these operations manually from the command line. commands.
In the new version, added additional settings for firewall rules, checking the access rights not only for the directory itself, but also for its content and to handle situations when the main directory is stored on an encrypted partition (requests the addition of the "force user" option).
Some changes carry over to Muffin's window manager from the Metacity window manager developed by the Gnome project.
Work was done to increase the responsiveness of the interface and a lighter design of the windows. Performance of operations, such as window grouping, has been increased and issues with hang on login have been resolved.
On the other hand, a block has been added to the configuration to select one of the three working methods of VSync, which provide configurations for optimal performance depending on the conditions of use and the equipment.
A printable applet has been added to the main composition, which now starts by default.
Some internal components were audited and simplified, such as DocInfo (recently opened document processing) and AppSys (application metadata analysis, application icon identification, definition of menu entries, etc.). Work on assigning applet handlers to separate processes has started, but not yet completed.
How to install Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu and derivatives?
Those users of Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives can do it, as well as previous versions that still have support (LTS).
We can add the repository to our system, opening a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and on it we are going to type the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:trebelnik-stefina/cinnamon
Once this is done, now we are going to update our list of packages and repositories with:
sudo apt-get update
And finally we can install the environment with the following command:
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
For 19.04 they will have to wait for it to arrive in the Ubuntu repositories or they can compile the source code of the environment. The link to download it It is as follows.