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Cinnamon 5.2.5 announced
The 5.2.5 version of the Cinnamon desktop environment developed by Linux Mint , which
offers advanced innovative features, but continues the traditional user experience in some way,
has been announced. The new version, announced by Clement Lefebvre on github.com , was thus
made available. It is reported that 2 file changes, 9 additions and 1 deletion were performed
in the release. While expressing the happiness on behalf of the whole team and developers
regarding the release of the version, users were asked not to hesitate about the feedback
of the bugs they detected regarding the new version that comes with various improvements
and innovations.
A minty fresh release ready for evaluation…
Linux Mint 20.3 Beta Makes a Major Change
Pull on your testing pants folks ‘cos the Linux Mint 20.3 beta is now available to download.
Mint announced the development milestone on its blog, and the omg! tip box has been hammered
with links to the Linux Mint 20.3 beta .iso from readers — which is appreciated! — so
I felt I better pass the news on ASAP!
The final release of Linux Mint 20.3 is due before Christmas
The final stable release of Linux Mint 20.3 is due before Christmas (possibly on the 18th
or the 25th, according to internet chatter). This beta is intended for devs and bug hunters
but gives interested users a sneak peek at what’s planned too.
So what’s new?
Well, a fair bit — I’ll take a deeper look at Linux Mint 20.3 when the stable release
arrives (Mint devs say they have some surprises planned).
What follows is a concise overview of the most striking changes I noticed when spending
time with the beta this afternoon.
Linux Mint 20.3 – New Look, New Apps We’ll start with the change you can’t
miss: the updated theme.
Linux Mint 20.3 gives itself a new look that uses — get this — less green! Minty tones
are replaced with steely grey accents and tinting throughout the UI.
Additionally, the Mint-Y theme sports rounded window corners by default. This helps give
the Linux Mint desktop (and the XApps that run on it) a pinch of modernity, and is no
doubt at helping the distro keep pace with changing visual styles on other platforms.
Finally, the Mint-Y theme refresh introduces (slightly) larger title bars and larger window
controls, with the minimize, maximize, and close buttons all notably larger than in Linux
Mint 20.2.
You can get a good feel for how these changes sit by using the comparison slider above (if
you’re reading from an RSS reader or a scraper site you probably won’t see this).
Sticking with visual changes, native Mint media apps (like Celluloid, Hypnotix, and
the stock image viewer) now use dark themes by default. This change is consistent with
other Linux distros and desktop environment (including Ubuntu and GNOME).
Cinnamon’s Calendar applet can now show calendar events. Multiple events on the same
day can be displayed, including those synced from different calendars, such as Google Calendar
and the Thunderbird e-mail client, alongside local events scheduled in the stock Calendar
app.
Linux Mint’s (terrific) Sticky notes app boasts search functionality. This makes it
much easier to find a specific sticky referencing an event, task, to-do, or other search term
you choose. Similarly Hypnotix, Mint’s free internet TV tool, gains a channel search feature
too:
Some of Mint’s other default apps get some updates. The PDF reader now pages in the right
direction when reading manga; the image viewer is able to quickly fit to the width or the
height of the displayed picture; and apps adapt to smaller display resolutions by hiding
the menubar, not showing a toolbar in fullscreen, and so on.
Lastly, Linux Mint 20.3 includes a new document tool called Library (and codenamed ‘Thingy’).
Library acts as a centralised front-end to see all of your favourite .pdf files irrespective
of their exact location on your system. Mint devs do plan to extend the file formats compatible
with the app in future releases:
Mint’s new Library app is also able to keep track of reading progress. While it’s not
quite as advanced as dedicated Linux ebook read apps like Foliate, it’s a similar approach.
Download Linux Mint 20.3 Beta Eager testers will be able to download Linux
Mint 20.3 Beta this week. The impatient can unwrap it a few days early from your preferred
Linux Mint download mirror.
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