Linux Mint 18 Sarah =================== update translations update linuxmint-keyring (and sign live repo) consider enabling recommends [done] mate-terminal lacks prompt colors [done] hide imagemagick [done] hide openjdk8 [done] mintmenu favorites terminal: no transparency? no new tab option in context menu firefox: update bookmarks (remove community or put it at the end) update DDG search engine consider not using default profile artwork: update default background in mint-artwork-gnome mint-backgrounds-sarah mintupdate: thicken numbers in status icons System: Upgrade path from Mint 17.3 cinnamon 3.0: menu doesn't seem to always update itself when installing/removing applications upgrade issue? users reported dist-upgrade from Betsy vanilla to Cinnamon 3.0 removed the cinnamon package menu: search on non-accentuated versions (for instance, "method" should find mintlocale's im in French) Maintenance =========== cinnamon-spices website: reimplement css handle utf-8, see comments on http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/171 upgrade LO to 5.0.6? betsy: 3rd Cinnamon 3.0 update pack Linux Mint 18.1 =============== system consider adding snapd cinnamon 3.2 vertical panels retire boxpointers remove plug/socket in screensaver applets menu: adopt this layout (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Panacea-Projects/Gnomenu/master/Screenshot.png), same as ours/mintmenu, only better. add a printer applet sound: add an option to switch sound to HDMI when an HDMI output device is plugged hidpi issues: top of mint menu is cut off in HiDPI (1920×1280) gnome-system-monitor moves out of place in Expo when battery is very low, battery icon isn't red.. 2% charge, with less than 5 minutes to go, still not red.. bar is red in CCC, icon is red in notification.. but not in applet (and also not in the CCC icon itself either) 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. accessibility: ability to select files by hovering them menu: use search providers to search local files mate 1.16 swith MATE to GTK3 switch mintmenu to GTK3 sound events vs sound themes multi-monitor: caja doesn't always show the desktop on the primary monitor (using a laptop as main/left monitor, and HDMI screen with higher res on the right, it surprisingly ends up showing icons on the right screen) libindicator++? xed sublime-like search bar mintupdate: provide a CLI (to let people upgrade automatically) gtk3: mintsources mintwelcome: hidpi: don't use 32px png icons mintlocale: hidpi: don't use fixed-size flag icons mintupload: use icon names rather than path to SVG mintsources: port to GTK3 Select all button in foreign pkgs: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintsources/issues/59 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. port to GTK3 redesign main page to feature essential apps use aptdaemon? aptdaemon doesn't work in LMDE and is being abandoned upstream in mintupdate, remove dep on synaptic, remove admin rights for checkAPT.py in mintwelcome and codec menu entry, switch from apturl to aptdaemon in mintsources, remove dep on synaptic remove synaptic from default selection remove synaptic from mintmenu's favorites LMDE +1: ========= 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) history and completion in bashrc install libhal1-flash by default consider activating http://backports.debian.org/changes/jessie-backports.html