Within the team Joseph continues to work his magic. Bit by bit he’s improving the look and feel of the Cinnamon desktop.<\/p>\n
The new default theme landed on the master branch. It’s much darker and contrasted than before. Objects are rounded and a gap was introduced between the applets and the panel.<\/p>\n
The dialogs were redesigned. They’re nicely balanced and feature separated buttons.<\/p>\n When an application is frozen and no longer responds Cinnamon shows a “Force Quit” dialog. This used to be a Gtk window. It was rewritten in Clutter to look like the rest of Cinnamon:<\/p>\n The media-buttons OSD looks more modern and much cleaner than before:<\/p>\n and so does the Workspace OSD:<\/p>\n Joseph is also working on notifications, animations, the main menu, pkexec\/logout dialogs, a new status applet… but I don’t want to show you too much yet. We’ll cover this in the news, little by little during the development cycle, as it gets finalized and becomes ready for inclusion in the next version of Cinnamon.<\/p>\n Aptkit<\/strong><\/p>\n The transition towards Aptkit and Captain is now finished. Starting with Linux Mint 22.1, set to be released this December, none of our projects will depend on aptdaemon, synaptic, gdebi or apturl anymore.<\/p>\n Aptdaemon, mintcommon’s aptdaemon module and ubiquity will eventually be discontinued.<\/p>\n The transition towards Aptkit and Captain gives us the following benefits:<\/p>\n This allowed us to completely refactor the code in the Update Manager and greatly simplify its architecture. It worked well but it had been written decades ago and some of the techniques and components it relied on weren’t future-proof. Its multithreading code was deprecated and hard to maintain. It depended on Synaptic and technology related to Gtk.Plug\/Socket which couldn’t work in Wayland. It also handled multi-processing calls and serialization itself. All of this was simplified.<\/p>\n In the Software Sources tool, the downgrading of foreign packages was performed via a VTE (an embedded terminal). This is now handled by Aptkit directly, with a nice progress dialog.<\/p>\n Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2024\/09\/calendar.png\")
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