We had been planning on redesigning our tooltips for a while. The main reason was that they lacked consistency and looked slightly different depending on where they came from (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon). They also featured a grey border which didn’t look clean around their yellow background.<\/p>\n
Looking around us at other operating systems, Linux themes and what was done on the Web, we found that almost nobody used the traditional yellow color anymore. We tried a few things and eventually settled on what we think looks the best for us. Rather than using yellow, black or grey tooltips we decided to make them use the accent color.<\/p>\n
We fixed the consistency issues across the various GTK versions and Cinnamon. We also took inspiration from Adwaita and made our tooltips bigger, rounder and with larger margins.<\/p>\n In Cinnamon we also added a bit of space between the applets and their tooltips so they wouldn’t be stuck to the panel.<\/p>\n Notifications<\/strong><\/p>\n Cinnamon notifications will also be using the accent color.<\/p>\n And whenever possible they will prefer symbolic icons.<\/p>\n Although these changes are quite small they continue to make the desktop look and feel cleaner and more modern.<\/p>\n In Linux Mint 21.1 efforts were made to make the accent colors more special, more vivid but less used. This continues this trend. Notifications and tooltips are transient elements which highlight an event or a feature. They should be beautiful and noticeable.<\/p>\n Secureboot<\/strong><\/p>\n An update in Ubuntu’s shim-signed broke the compatibility of all Linux Mint (and past Ubuntu and derivative) ISOs with secureboot.<\/p>\n If because of this you are unable to install Linux Mint, for now we recommend to disable secureboot.<\/p>\n We are currently working on a fix for future ISOs and taking this opportunity to review the way we produce our images.<\/p>\n Upcoming Releases<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re planning three releases for the Summer (or Winter if you’re in the South Hemisphere):<\/p>\n In order for all releases to get the 21.2 changes, they should come out in that order, with up to a month separating the Mint 21.2 and the LMDE 6 releases.<\/p>\n No ETAs have been decided yet.<\/p>\n Warpinator<\/strong><\/p>\n Work continues on hardening the security aspects of Warpinator.<\/p>\n The tool recently received support for landlock and bubblewrap. These technologies were used to guarantee folder isolation, basically making Warpinator technically unable to write outside of its dedicated download folder.<\/p>\n Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2023\/05\/shadow_tooltips.png\")
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