Linux Mint 18 Sarah

Upgrade path from Mint 17.3

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?

Linux Mint 18.1

switch ntp to chrony?

firefox:
    enable bookmark toolbar by default
    enable plugins by default

review logind.conf changes in:
    MATE
    Xfce
    KDE

system
    consider adding snapd
    consider adding support for xdg-apps, flatpack
    consider enabling recommends

mint-tools:
    in MATE, window icons aren't set properly when the icon is placed in /usr/share/pixmaps

cinnamon 3.2
    mouse/touchpad: fix sensitivity settings (shouldn't be inverted... should be described as motion-threshold or even better, as what they actually do). Also, add a way to reset their value.
    actions in panel launchers aren't translated if not present in .desktop file
    add cinnamon-session and cinnamon-settings-daemon to Launchpad/cinnamon-translations
    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.
    menu: use search providers to search local files
    launcher: check budgie app suggestions
    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?
    In Nemo, when I click on File System, followed by File and Properties, it gives me the details of the Home folder, not the File System, so it’s difficult to determine disk space of overall operating system. 
    In Nemo, if i select a new tab, the folder name that appears in the tab appears with a separation line underneath, separating the tab name from the list of files in the folder. This style of separation is onconsistent to XED, where the Tab name and content under that tab have no such visible horizontal separation line.
    Setting the screensaver to turn on but not require a password is very confusing. I have to go to set “Lock the computer when put to sleep” to “No” (because I don’t want it to require a password); set “Lock the computer when the screen turns off” to “No” (because, again, I don’t want it to require a password); and then set “Lock the computer when inactive” to a time value to have the screensaver come on. (I’m not even sure that I’ve got that right.) The problem is that “lock the computer” implies that it’s going to require a password — but I don’t want that, I simply want the screensaver to kick in. This is a poorly worded dialog box.
    consider merging worldclock https://github.com/simonwiles/cinnamon_applets
    network applet: if possible, add a little refresh icon to ask for a new scan
    system settings modules don't use the icon (in alt-tab, and window list) associated with the menu item
    Bluetooth panel icon was nicer when it was monochromatic (do we need blueberry to provide a cinnamon applet?)
    nemo: Touch screen clicks are not working in the icon and compact view section of Nemo, everywhere else seems fine.
    When connecting with PEAP authentication, the network manager applet just gets stuck instead of prompting for credentials.
    ability to lock desklets?
    When scrolling down in the Menu smoothly, icons/items leave some “traces” behind, if you can call it that
    Nemo get blank icons after set “Show text in icons” to “Always” or “Local Files Only”.
    cinnamon crashed to Fallback while Winetricks was installing an app, Irfanview. It was in the procedure where the installer writes launchers to the desktop.
    mouse motion settings reset themselves after a while?
    constantly getting a NEMO “thumbnail error” when I open photo directories (no videos) I haven’t visited in a while.
    Clock takes up about 30-60 seconds to update the hour after waking up the system from sleeping. Can we get a signal on wakeup?

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
    some icons are named and other not, for example, Open, Save and Undo are named, yet Print, Cut and Paste are not.
    Would like to see a RED warning bar with Xed when in root edit mode as with the former Gedit in 17.3.

xreader
    should place its menu item in the accessories category instead of office

xplayer/xviewer/xreader/pix
    add a persistant option to blank other monitors when in full screen
    visualizations don't work

xapps
    should show their project name in the about dialog

pix
    should use a generic name in the application menu

xviewer
    “Date in statusbar” doesn’t work.
    “Disable Dark Theme” doesn’t work, if i’m right when i assume it should do “gsettings set org.x.viewer.view use-background-color false”?
    “Hide Titlebar” not sure what it should do…?
    “Export to Folder”, “Fullscreen Background”, “Python Console” and “Slideshow Shuffle” can’t be activated. in the moment they get grayed out and a tool-tip says “The plugin ‘XXX’ could not be loaded – An error occurred: Plugin loader ‘python3’ was not found”
    after a fullscreen-view the sidebar is gone and must be enabled manually again.
    please make the position (left/right, top/bottom won’t make much sense) of the sidebar configurable (like the gallery) at least via dconf!

mintupdate:
    provide a CLI (to let people upgrade automatically)
    add shortcut keys

mintwelcome:
    consider accompanying the user and hinting at things he/she might want to do (codecs, popular settings, popular apps etc..) - check chalet OS' startpoint ideas

mintsources:
    Select all button in foreign pkgs: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintsources/issues/59
    menu icon shouldn't be hardcoded

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.
    redesign main page to feature essential apps

mintmenu:
    focus issues reported in /var/log/syslog

blueberry:
    cinnamon applet?

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

HiDPI support:
    upstream apps using GTK2: Banshee, Gimp, Hexchat, VLC, Pidgin, Tomboy.
    mint projects using GTK2: mdmsetup, mintinstall, mintsources, gksu, cinnamon's mount dialog (seen when asking for a password for an encrypted external HDD).
    mintlocale: fixed-size flag icons
    mintupload: use icon names rather than path to SVG
    mintwelcome: don't use 32px png icons

artwork:
    Tray icons are black with mint-y themes.
    Mint-Y Icon theme doesn’t show document contents. Mint-X icon variants can show the content of a text file without any problems, but this is not the case with Mint-Y. If Mint-Y will never support such a feature, I would suggest using an icon that indicates a text file, rather than the blank placeholder icon.
    Mint-Y themes Shade option is unavailable
    mint-x-icons: in MATE (with a high panel), network status icons have a dark background in 32px and bigger. they would look much better in the panel with a transparent bg like other icons.


done:
    cinnamon: sounds for notifications (needs to be configured in mint-artwork-cinnamon)

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