![]() Selected items color change (here too you can see the context background color change as well) … The context background color of application windows are changed from being pure white to slightly blueish, the color of selected items (folders/files, menus …) & the ‘tooltips’ in Nemo look slightly darker when compared to their predecessors (darker green & darker yellow, respectfully). The default Cinnamon theme is also subtly changed, and as mentioned above, everything now look bigger (Title-bars, scroll-bars and other application window related elements - window controls, icons etc, as a result). I did check to see if the fonts settings are different, but they are not, so I do not know what is behind it (it is perhaps due to the added Retina display support). I do not know if it is rendering related or not, but the fonts now look slightly big, sharp and clear also. Another useful change.Įnhanced ‘Power Management’ Control WindowĪll the power management related settings are now listed under a single window, finally!. Now users can enable or disable the execution of a ‘Hot corner’ while hoovering. The ‘Status-bar’ at the bottom has grown by a few pixels and as a result the icons (zoom level adjuster, ‘Show Places/Treeview, ‘Disable Sidebar’ …) look a bit bigger, which is also good!. On the main toolbar, there is a new shortcut for creating a new folder which can come quite handy. On Nemo’s side bar there is a new menu entry called ‘Recent’ which once clicked displays the users recently opened files & folders. This is disabled by default, but it can be enabled easily by right clicking on the applet and then choosing ‘Configure…’. Sound Applet now has the ability to display the name and display the album-art (as an icon) whenever an audio track is being played by VLC & Banshee. Although it has received additional menu-entry, the right-click menu of the taskbar looks more simple and clean because they have cleverly arranged the order of menus & have gotten rid of a sub-menu that gave access to ‘Themes’, ‘Applets’ & ‘Panel’. It is said the startmenu has the ability to automatically highlight the newly installed applications, but it did not work while I tested it. Users can now uninstall installed applications through the start-menu by selecting and right-clicking on an application icon. When compared with the Cinnamon 2.0 that came with LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 2014.03, except for few subtle changes in the Mint start-menu and taskbar, the desktop looks pretty much the same. The boot-logo also looks pretty much the same. Once I rebooted the PC, I was greeted by the usual & ugly looking GRUB theme that Linux Mint always comes with □. ![]() all in all, the installation was carried out without any issues whatsoever. But, as far as my hardware was concerned, Mint was able to recognize all of my hardware (except the fingerprint reader which is not yet supported by Linux) and configure them correctly. Linux Mint uses Ubuntu’s installer so I will not go into details. I prepared a Live USB drive for the installation and as soon as it finished booting, I executed the installer. Linux Mint Debian 2014.03 also features the previous stable version of Cinnamon (2.0), thus I have used it as a reference point, while comparing what is new with Cinnamon 2.2 in Linux Mint 17 as well. It's a Dell Vostro V-131 notebook.Īs always, I measured few useful technical details of LM 17 Cinnamon such as the Boot-up Times, Memory Usage upon Desktop login, CPU & power usage at idle, Shutdown delay … and then compared them with the data that I have for Linux Mint Debain 2014.03 & Linux Mint 15 (I did not get a chance to test LM 16). Intel Core i3-2330M CPU, Intel HD 3000 GPU, 4GB RAM (DDR3), Toshiba 7200 RPM (320GB) SATA HDD, Intel N-1030 Wireless adapter, Realtek network adapter ('RTL8168'), LED display with 1366x768 resolution (60Hz/60FPS). ‘Cinnamon’ 2.2 includes lots of changes & new features, but I am not going to waste my time on that since you can read about them in the release notes page (screenshots included). I will however, as always, mention few new features that are of particular interest to most end-users.īelow is a brief information of my hardware: I was always more interested in ‘Cinnamon’ desktop as it is their primary desktop, so as usual, for this review I downloaded the 64-bit version of the ‘Cinnamon edition’ which includes the latest stable version of ‘Cinnamon’ (2.2), Kernel 3.13, X.Org 7.7 & MDM 1.6, mainly. ![]() Linux Mint comes with four desktop editions: ‘Cinnamon’, ‘MATE’, ‘XFce’ & ‘KDE’, although currently, only ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘MATE’ editions are available, ‘XFce’ and ‘KDE’ should arrive shortly. Linux Mint 17 (code named ‘Qiana’) Cinnamon which was released a couple of days ago is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS core, and being as such, it will be supported until 2019.
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