{"id":3521,"date":"2018-04-01T22:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2018-04-01T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T21:24:39","slug":"monthly-news-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’d like to send a huge thank you to all the people who donate to us. Many thanks also to all of you for your feedback, ideas, and contributions to our project.<\/p>\n

Xreader<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We worked on improving the PDF reader a bit.<\/p>\n

We added a preferences window and the ability to add history and expand buttons in the toolbar.<\/p>\n

It is now possible to change the size of the thumbnails and that size is remembered for each document.<\/p>\n

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Many bugs were fixed, annotations can now be removed and ePub documents can now be saved.<\/p>\n

Support for smooth-scrolling was improved and if recent documents are enabled in your desktop\u2019s privacy settings, the PDF reader will show you the most recently opened documents.<\/p>\n

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Configurable maximum volume in Cinnamon<\/b><\/p>\n

In the upcoming version of Cinnamon, you\u2019ll be able to define the maximum sound output volume.<\/p>\n

In the past, the applet and the multimedia keys allowed you to set the sound volume between 0 and 100%, and you could open the sound settings to get access to amplification and set the volume all the way to 150%.<\/p>\n

This was changed. A new setting was added to define the maximum sound volume.<\/p>\n

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The sound applet, the multimedia keys and the sound settings allow you to set the volume between 0 and the maximum sound volume value.<\/p>\n

This is useful for laptops which speakers aren\u2019t very loud.. setting a maximum volume louder than 100% adds a little bit of amplification.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also useful in certain cases, when you don\u2019t want the maximum volume to be as loud as what the speakers allow. That maximum value can be set lower than 100%.<\/p>\n

Meson<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We started using the Meson<\/a> build system. Our experience with it so far has been extremely positive.<\/span><\/p>\n

4 projects are now using it: xapps, nemo, cinnamon-desktop and xplayer-plparser.<\/p>\n

In comparison to Autotools, we find Meson much faster and simpler to maintain. As a result, we spend less time focusing on the builds and more time focusing on the projects themselves.<\/p>\n

Long term, we’re likely to port all our projects to Meson.<\/p>\n

Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Platinum Sponsors:<\/span>
\n\"Private<\/a>
\nGold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"Acunetix\"<\/a>
\n\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
\nBronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"7L<\/a>
\n\"Goscomb\"<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"David<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n