FF is missing l10n? (related to mint-artwork-common?)
choosing encrypt install and overrite empty space crashes installation and leaves drive with no os on it.
cinnamon: "*.deb" files do no automatically associate with gdebi
vlc-l10n should be a dep of mint-meta-codecs
xfce:
f1 doesn't produce help content
Right clicking on a folder in Thunar and slecting open as root does nothing
MATE:
uses ntp? switch to chrony?
mintupdate keeps displaying "Do you want to switch to a local mirror?", click OK -> never comes up with the mirror-speed-test https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/pull/358
Lock screen prompt takes about minute to show, and when I enter my password, it takes another minute to actually let me back to desktop. There are suspicious messages in journalctl:
gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't initialize slot with master password: The password or PIN is incorrect
remove gnome-session-bin?
Launching mintdrivers from mintwelcome has the same missing label issue as in mintsources. However, running "pkexec mintdrivers" from terminal shows the label... weird.
Launching codecs installation from mintwelcome shows a dialog that has no parent window set. It's easily covered by other windows and isn't shown in tasklist.
Launching "install/remove languages" tool from mintlocale seems to keep the privileges (mate-polkit icon is shown in tray), it will ask for password next time anyway, when you close the install/remove dialog and launch it again. Weird.
After multimedia codecs are installed, the entry for it is not disabled/removed from menus. It's still there in mintmenu (or Alt-F1 menu).
System reports tool also still offers me to install the codecs, even though I did so from mintwelcome before.
When using Mint-X theme, there are visual glitches in mate-screensaver-preferences in the side pane (list of screensavers). Just move the mouse over that pane back and forth, without clicking.
Compiz doesn't have MATE compatibility plugin enabled, so Alt-F1 and Alt-F2 shortcuts don't work as MATE users would expect. There's GNOME compatibility plugin enabled, I have no idea what it does. Maybe some support from gnome-flashback session?
There's some inconsistency between Compiz plugins enabled by mintdesktop and the ones enabled in CCSM.
When you first switch to Compiz in matedesktop, it creates /org/compiz/profles/mate/ in dconf and puts plugins-with-set-keys key there, filled with list of enabled plugins. But it doesn't create /org/compiz/profles/mate/plugins/ which is supposed to contain settings of enabled plugins.
When you launch CCSM after that, it has a different set of enabled plugins. For example, it doesn't have winrules plugin enabled at all. But CCSM actually creates /org/compiz/profles/mate/plugins/ in dconf and puts several subfolders there, which have the settings of currently enabled plugins. These plugins are the ones that are checked in CCSM itself, so there's no subfolder for winrules in dconf.
I'm quite confused because winrules plugin actually seems to work (even though it looks disabled): mintmenu doesn't have a gap between itself and panel. Or maybe that bug isn't reproducible anymore with Ubuntu 18.04 base? No idea.
For reference, old bug reports about the gap and the commits with the fixes for it:
wifi networks available notif is blue, but connected one is green
thunar/caja -> use app icon? (is folder appropriate. doesn't currently change color with color variation)
remove humanity-icon-theme and ubuntu-mono
gdebi: pkexec doesn’t work when double-clicking from nemo https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1760910 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1749728
gist-paste still used in xapps/mintsystem
cinnamon settings startup, edit item with no delay, save -> python exception
Re-enable 3rd party repositories after upgrade. A backup of the APT sources gets stored in ~/Upgrade-Backup/APT but the tutorial didn't cover this or what to do with it (probably best to just find what the 3rd party repositories were and re-enable them manually from instructions on their website). Important for things like Google Chrome.
mintupgrade replaces user modified configuration files in /etc without prompting, leaving *.dpkg-old files behind. Perhaps cover this tidbit in the tutorial.
release notes
warning about guest accounts not being confined
warning about home directory encryption not unmounting on logout
enable recent by default, fix mem leak https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-desktop/commit/2015cc0f8a8fe46384225b0cf10df45f7d3d9315#diff-7ad95a88738c9b5cd253f469add87640
don't ship icons with generic names in /usr/share/hicolor. All icons should be prefixed (cs-, xapp-, nemo-..etc..) so they don't conflict with other packages
CSD/Cinnamon should set GtkSettings' gtk-print-preview-command to "xreader-previewer -u -p %s %f" (test by launching xreader from terminal, ask for a print preview and see error trying to launch evince on stdout)
cinnamon slow to start after boot --> delay execution of appsys/docinfo until the DE is loaded
CSD: support mouse wheel speed? Evdev scrolling distance?
menu keywords: looking for display in menu shows color first
preferences > keyboard > custom shortcuts. Used with a Spanish keyboard layout. Recorded: crtl+number and ctrl+Shift+number (e.g. ctrl+1 and ctrl+shift+1 = ctrl+!) they are recorded correctly. When using the shortcut the command defined in the shift combination is triggered with just ctrl+number (i.e. ctrl+1). The complete combination triggers nothing (i.e. ctrl+shift+1 does nothing) and the comand defined in ctrl+number can never be used. This worked in 17.3.
track/troubleshoot shutdown sequence (user should know what is happening when shutdown isn't immediate)
track/troubleshoot vsync, compositing, unredirected windows and policy
menu: consider adopting this layout (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Panacea-Projects/Gnomenu/master/Screenshot.png), same as ours/mintmenu, only better.
network applet: airplane mode (quick way to rfkill all)
nemo: retire computer:/// place (which is completely useless) or revamp it into something better
alt-tab and panel use icon provided by appsys, ignoring icon set by the application itself (example: a python window using widow.set_icon_name())
actions in panel launchers aren't translated if not present in .desktop file
gnome-system-monitor moves out of place in Expo
When using Cinnamon bar at top, and secondary monitor with higher height than the main display, some apps like KDE Apps (Krita, Kdenlive) or Wine Based Apps (teamviewer) will display menus from toolbar in the wrong place. Being more specific: The menus will be displayed in the position that they should be displayed at main monitor, however in this case the window is maximized in the secondary monitor.
Is there any reason why there are two names for the same item, eg. "Trash" and "Rubbish Bin"? Would it be better to standardise on only one name?
add gnome-screenshot to panel, right-click and select "Take screenshot of a selected area". This runs gnome-screenshot -a.. it should work but it doesn't. Is it because of the panel launcher capturing the click event or something?
make the GOA frontend an Xapp (it should be cross-DE), disable buggy/irrelevant services
xapps
implement an app-sharing protocol to quickly move a document from one app to another
gestures support:
pinch:
zoom document in pix
zoom view in nemo
swipe:
previous/next document in pix
scroll:
sound-volume/seek in xplayer
click:
pause/resume in xplayer
double-click:
full-screen in xplayer
full-screen in xviewer
pix
doesn't rotate videos when playing them
vignettes should look better, and the same in all themes
support prefer-dark-themes
treeview in sidebar shows unecessary "(empty)" when dirs have no subdirs
