Linux Mint 18 Sarah
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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