You probably noticed a lot of mint tools were getting released… as we’re getting close to Daryna we’re taking the opportunity to make things better. MintUpdate is pretty stable. MintInstall is going through massive surgery and next in the line will probably be mintDesktop..

Anyway, mintInstall 2.6 looks better, does a better job at downloading and installing software and is i18n ready.

Please test it and send us your feedback:

http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6048

Launchpad prooved to be useful and 3 mint projects now use it:

https://launchpad.net/mintInstall

https://launchpad.net/mintUpdate

https://launchpad.net/mintDesktop

For each of these projects, launchpad provides the following features:

• You can report bugs
• You can write blueprints if you want new features to be considered in future versions
• You can ask questions and get answers
• For projects which are translatable (all will be, in time…) you can help translating them to other languages
• In the future you might be able to take part in their development and branch off source code

If you don’t have a launchpad account yet, open one and get involved.

A new version of mintUpdate 1.5 was released. Users can now change the icons used in the system tray:

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6034