On 01/29/2012 02:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > > The way I read it, Cinnamon was the default for Mint 12. I could be > wrong though. Cinnamon will be the default for Mint 13, it is available for 12. The default for 12 is Clem's modified Gnome 3 > > Right now, from what I have seen in the screen clips for Mint 12, I do > not see any panels or other way to bring up the menu system so you can > run/install packages. The only thing that is shown is the Home folder > icon and the Computer/Terminal looking icon. > > On 01/29/2012 02:05 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: >> On 01/29/2012 12:35 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: >>> >>> Anyone out there have used Linux Mint 12 with LO? >> Yes with Gnome 3, Clem added some features to Gnome 3 so that the DE has >> features from 2.X in addition to the normal Gnome 3 for Linux Mint 12. >> >> I believe Cinnamon and Mate are alternate DE's. Cinnamon, I believe, is >> new DE while Mate is a fork/continuation of Gnome 2. Cinnamon 1.2 is >> considered stable and has been released. >> >> I have briefly looked at Cinnamon and as I remember I had no problems >> with LO or any other packages I had tried. >>> This is actually a developer's question, but needs to be asked of the >>> Users as well. >>> >>> Does anyone know if LO works with the Cinnamon, which is a "shell" [I >>> think that is the correct term] that is placed over GNOME 3.x so it >>> looks and works like GNOME2.x? I remember that there was some issues >>> with LO working with GNOME 3.x desktop environment's way of displaying >>> "windows". Since the 2.x project is closed and people were going to >>> other distros and desktops due to their dislike of GNOME 3.x, Linux >>> Mint decided to develop a way for people to have their GNOME 2.x >>> style of desktop on 3.x. It seemed that people were going to Mint >>> since they still supported 2.x, but when they could no longer get it >>> from their source [Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, with another Mint a fork >>> of Debian] they had to provide a GNOME 2.x style of desktop shell to >>> keep their users happy. >>> >>> Cinnamon is not stable, according to the web site. It is on Linux >>> Mint 12, and either in the repository, a Git repository, or in a PPA >>> for; Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, OpenSUSE 12.1, Arch Linux, and Gentoo. >>> >>> I have not tried it, since I am still using Ubuntu 10.04. I did not >>> like Ubuntu's switch to GNOME3 and could not use it with my needs. So >>> I was stuck with 10.xx. If LO will support that desktop shell >>> combination, I will now be able to look into having a more up-to-date >>> OS, other than what Ubuntu places in its 10.04 repository updates. At >>> least 10.04 now shows LO 3.4.4-402 as the latest version in the >>> repository, which I installed from LO's web site when it came out. >>> >>> http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61 >>> >>> With Win 8 going to the Tablet-style of desktop environment, like >>> GNOME 3 seems to be as well, there is talk about many users will >>> either have to back-port it to Win 7 or go to Linux. If Linux is >>> chosen, then they have to use something other than the standard GNOME >>> 3 desktop. >>> >>> For myself, I use a combination of GNOME2.x and KDE since there are >>> packages in KDE that are better than GNOME 2.x's version and some of >>> GNOME 2.x works better than KDE for me for the actual desktop. Many of >>> the KDE system monitoring and modification packages are easier for me >>> to use over GNOME 2.x versions. So I have a "interesting" setup. >>> Now, if I can get a replacement drive for my test system, I will try >>> Mint 12 with Cinnamon, but it may take time to get that really old >>> system [bios will not work with any Windows newer than Win ME, not >>> even Win2000] a replacement drive. So it will be awhile before I can >>> test Cinnamon with LO, and I would like to know if it does work well >>> with LO. >>> >>> >> > >
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