Linux Mint experiments with pink and launches app to share files between Linux

Like every month, Clement Lefebvre posted a few hours ago an entry on his blog in which he tells us how the progress of the Linux Mint and everything that surrounds you. After mentioning that they are working to correct as many errors as they can, he told us about a change in the color palette of the Mint-Y theme that leaves purple behind to show the pink that you can see above these lines.

Previously, the Mint-Y theme showed a more purple color, one that reminds us of the new aubergine from Focal Fossa but something clearer. The new and the one that we will probably have as an option in the future Linux Mint is, in Lefebvre's words, «more vibrant in terms of lightness and saturation, but also more pink in terms of hue (it lost that purple hue that the previous color had)«. The new method will be applied to the rest of the colors and will adapt to the folder icons.

Linux Mint presents Warpinator, an app to share files between Linux

This month he has not told us much more. The rest of the article has focused on talking about warpinator, which is an application that will serve to send files to other Linux computers that are connected to the same WiFi network. Probably, many or only some of you are thinking about AirDrop right now, a similar system that Apple started using in 2011 but, as usual, was not the first to be implemented. In fact, Warpinator is based on Giver, a tool that Linux Mint included in its operating system about 10 years ago.

Personally, I like the idea of ​​Warpinator, but I see a problem, the same as I see AirDrop: yes only works on computers with the same operating system or ecosystem, we cannot use it with others, such as Windows, macOS, Android or iOS. Therefore, it is worth mentioning the tool that I am using, one that we can use in any browser regardless of the operating system we are using. Is about sharedrop.io and I hope Lefebvre forgives me for this comment.

Although they have not mentioned it in this post, Linux Mint 20 will start to develop when they solve some problems and will be released in the first half of 2020.