Cinnamon 2.8.5 Is Out for Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa", Improves Several Applets

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The Sound applet also received some improvements

Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon

Very early today, November 21, Clement Lefebvre and his team of hard working developers pushed a new medium-urgency maintenance release of the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment for Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" operating system.

We reported a few days ago on the immediate availability for download and testing of the Beta builds of the upcoming Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon and MATE editions, both of which including all sorts of under-the-hood improvements and the latest versions of the popular desktop environments, Cinnamon 2.8 and MATE 1.12, respectively.

Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition shipped with Cinnamon 2.8.4, but today we're glad to inform you that the GNOME 3-based desktop environment has been updated to version 2.8.5, a release that updates the relevant workspace graph when removing or adding windows from/to a workspace and no longer ignores maximized windows in the graph in the Workspace Switcher applet.

Moreover, the Cinnamon 2.8.5 release is capable of handling scenarios when the /usr/lib64 path is a symlink to the /use/lib directory, which will no longer cause problems for certain GNU/Linux distributions. The missing flag icons have been added in the Keyboard applet, and the minimize sound now works when setting the minimize animation to "traditional."

Last but not least, the Sound applet has been updated and it will now also close the menu when the media player is closed, a typo in the signalManager.js file has been corrected, and a graphical glitch in the Menu applet, which occurred during searches, has been fixed. Cinnamon 2.8.5 is now available in the default software repositories of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa."

For other GNU/Linux distributions, you can download the Cinnamon 2.8.5 sources right now and start compiling by hand. Below the internal changelog for reference.

Changelog:

[ Michael Webster ]

* workspace-switcher applet: update relevant workspace graph when a window is added or removed from a workspace.
* workspace-switcher applet: Don't ignore maximized windows in the graph

[ Michal ]
* #4767: Handle situations when /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib and vice versa on some distributions causing modules are being loaded multiple times
* #4357: Replace has_icon method with lookup_icon one to fix missing flags icons in keyboard applet

[ Dexter Chua ]
* signalManager.js: fix typo (fixes #4818)

[ JosephMcc ]
* effects: Currently when setting the minimize animation to "traditional" no sound effect is used when restoring the window. Change this so the minimize sound is played in this case.

[ Clement Lefebvre ]
* Sound applet: Close menu when closing media player.

[ Lars Mueller ]
* Fix menu applet's graphical oddity during search This is fixing #4845

News source

[steven36]

Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition shipped with Cinnamon 2.8.4, but today we're glad to inform you that the GNOME 3-based desktop environment has been updated to version 2.8.5, a release that updates the relevant workspace graph when removing or adding windows from/to a workspace and no longer ignores maximized windows in the graph in the Workspace Switcher applet.

It came out yesterday and 2.8.5 vs 2.8.4 is just minor update when i 1st tested it it was 2.8.0 you got from pre release update in 17.2 they were 4 updates for cinnamon before the beta ever came out . 2.8.5 did seem to help booting up speed in the beta though :P

Why does this site fail to mention 17.3 is beta in this article ?

A lot of people getting bad regression from Nvidia drivers on this build Its ether from the new kernel 3.19 or the new Xorg/MESA stack.

But all running good here on my AMD with Radeon HD Graphics card with amd-catalyst-15.9-linux drivers . :tooth:

They want release it stable tell its safe for everyone . i tested the new driver manger in 17.3 it works OK but Xorg and the AMD drivers they offer from it suck and are old. to get the best drivers for it you have to get them from AMD website and install them yourself . The ones from there driver manger want let me enable hardware acceleration in bomi when watching videos . the ones from AMD website work fine . The biggest problem I seen with Linux is drivers ..if you don’t care about hardware acceleration its best to just use the open source ones from Xorg. !5.9 drivers witch are the newest from AMD wont work in Ubuntu 15.10 unless you downgrade the kernel .That's why I use Linux Mint because its based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS . :)

System Requirements

Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver, the following software must be installed:

• Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.17)
• Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.19)
• glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
• POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86

Ubuntu 15.10 has Linux Kernel 4.2 so it only works right with open source Drivers . ;)

Hopefully by the time Linux Mint 18 and cinnamon 3 come out witch is next release AMD will have updated there drivers for the new Kernel. Anyway all Linux Mint 17x releases are Long Time Service tell 2019 .