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Linux Mint 18 Sarah
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Look and feel:
isolinux theme
plymouth theme
GTK 3.18 support in Mint-X
Sidebar issues
Pathbar buttons (visible in nemo)
Context menus don't look good
new GTK theme
new icon theme
consider making it easy to switch to old theme? (maybe a meta-theme and support for it in cinnamon?).
website revamp
X-Apps:
[done] xed
[done] xplayer
[done] xviewer
xreader
xar
xapps support in Cinnamon (replace default apps)
xapps support in MATE
xapps support in MIME defaults
Regressions:
GTK/Cinnamon: window is mapped to top-left and then moves in position when minimizing and then restauring from the panel window list
GTK/Nemo: text entry out of place when renaming a file
GTK: Overlay scrollbars hide content (for instance the last line of text in a text editor when wrapping is disabled)
Mint apps:
Migrate to gsettings/gtk3/python3 and review shebangs
Software selection:
consider replacing/removing mintbackup
consider replacing/removing gthumb
System:
Restore brightness settings on reboot (killswitch does that for bluetooth state)
add "pwfeedback" to Defaults line in sudoers file, to show *** feedback when typing password
Upgrade path from Mint 17.3
mate 1.14:
touchpad: tap actions should reflect click actions
mcc: replace sound themes with sound events
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)
cinnamon 3.0:
touchpad: tap actions should reflect click actions
multi-monitor: add an option to suspend on lid-close EVEN when external monitors are plugged
sound: add an option to switch sound to HDMI when an HDMI output device is plugged
menu: search on non-accentuated versions (for instance, "method" should find mintlocale's im in French)
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.
hovering over notifications which have buttons/widgets should not dim them ...
accessibility: ability to select files by hovering them
mintupdate:
unattended updates? at least provide a CLI to do it via cron?
fix mergelist issues directly in mintupdate or checkAPT
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.
mintmenu: dark themes https://github.com/linuxmint/mintmenu/issues/87
17.3
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release management:
screenshots
videos of each desktops
update listing on website from mintinstall
upgrade LO to 5.0.4
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
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
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