If you haven’t already done so, have a look at the Gnome 2.22 release notes. As usual the latest release of Gnome comes with a lot of subtle improvements which are described and illustrated in the release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/

Although some of the applications that are part of the Gnome project aren’t included in Linux Mint by default, a lot of these upstream improvements will directly affect your user experience in the upcoming Linux Mint 5 Elyssa planned for release in May.

Well I have started development or a ramp up to Mint 5 KDE. What does this mean or what am I doing? To start with I am doing a clean up of applications and deb packages in an effort to make the KDE edition smaller, faster and cleaner. Due to the nature of development of the KDE version there are some legacy and double up of packages and the best time to get rid of these is after a new stable release. My initial cut reduced the the iso image to 860MB from 998MB but there is still a long way to go to get to 700MB.

A big help to reduce size would be to convert the frontends of the mint apps to Qt so I could get rid of GTK libs and dependancies. So are there any budding Qt develpoers out there who want to help?

Cheers

Boo

With the arrival of Mint KDE Daryna, I’d like to mention some changes on the wiki side of things. There’s an entire section exclusively devoted to Mint KDE. And although it’s not much to look at right now, I would like to invite everyone to help contribute to this potentially huge community resource. I’ve already put up a couple of tips & tricks of my own… 🙂

–Akshun J