18 == artwork/config: review isolinux New artwork system: Restore brightness settings on reboot (killswitch does that for bluetooth state) mate 1.14: touchpad: tap actions should reflect click actions cinnamon 3.0: touchpad: tap actions should reflect click actions 17.3 ===== release management: screenshots videos of each desktops 17.3 BETA ========= [GIT] Cinnamon Sound applet: Close menu after clicking X button sources: live.linuxmint.com might need priority over packages.linuxmint.com to keep FF locales in sync with live version of FF consider not using extra.linuxmint.com consider downgrading import/main priority to 500 mintupdate: don't test up-to-date-ness if using packages.linuxmint.com.. when testing up-to-date-ness, check mirror first, don't check packages.linuxmint.com if age is less than 2 days remember mint age across refreshes, only re-read it if up-to-date check fails for mirror mintdrivers: always mark bcmwl-kernel-source as recommended mark b43 options as needing a connection to the Internet maybe indicate a reboot is needed post-successful driver install mintwelcome: use semi-saturated icons, or use full-saturated icons with highlighted versions for hover mintinstall: when apt cache is missing, it just says not available. Instead it could tell the user or even help the user to refresh the cache. cinnamon: 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. hovering over notifications which have buttons/widgets should not dim them ... hidpi issues: Windows previews are nice but they are too small (not sure if this is only on HiDPI) – is there a way to make them bigger? Top of mint menu is cut off in HiDPI (1920×1280) Xfce/KDE ======== xfce: the xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin is not installed through the meta-package exo-utils can't open paths with special chars in them: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=202069 replace thunar with filemanager in panel: http://i.imgur.com/h6ftheB.png kde: mint kde 17.2 with asus ux303LA. On HDMI, can't clone screens, can't play sounds on tv. Both problems are solved by installing kde-workspace-randr. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kscreen/+bug/1213753 for details. Other ===== mate: make transitional packages for: mate-dialogs -> zenity mate-calc -> gcaltool mate-system-tools -> gnome-system-tools MATE/Xfce: provide QT5 override in /etc/X11/Xsession.d to make it use GTK style alt-tab thumbs cost perf.. caja: clicking on home [compact view] in sidebar then on filesystem [icon view], back and forth, eventually dir names disappear md5sum action lmde: bashrc: # colored GCC warnings and errors --> export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01' (won't work until gcc 4.9) update grub (improves efi support) Add va-driver-all to the list of installed packages (fixes black bands with Intel GPUs). upgrade path: /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf --> [Daemon] Theme=mint-logo logind.conf history and completion in bashrc betsy, meld 3.12.1 doesn't work (shows a black background), upgrade it to 3.12.3 install libhal1-flash by default consider activating http://backports.debian.org/changes/jessie-backports.html backport blueman 2.0.1 website: switch sensitive parts to https (md5 in particular) Update tapatalk API on forums. handle utf-8 on spices, see comments on http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/171 PIA: command to set up connection ca.crt tutorial support for openvpn