Hi all

Cinnamon 3.2 has just been released (not yet announced) and the tarballs are now available through github repository. There will be some minor releases after the first major release to fix bugs found after release.

I'm planning to provide Cinnamon 3.2 binary packages for Slackware 14.2 users when it's considered stable enough (probably around December). However, for those who are curious enough, i have prepared the early preview of Cinnamon 3.2 packages compiled against latest Slackware64-14.2 updates for testing purposes. As usual, testing packages are now uploaded to slackware.uk. Feel free to download and give feedbacks.

If you prefer to build from source or if you are running 32 bit version of Slackware 14.2, i have pushed 3.2-prep branch based on 14.2 branch. You can use that branch to build Cinnamon 3.2. It's a temporary branch and when it's stable enough, i will push it to master and 14.2 branch.

There's a new package being added in order to build the new cinnamon: autoconf-archive. Also, gnome-common needs to be rebuilt to add new configure parameter related to autoconf-archive to avoid overlapping files.

NOTE: master branch contains 2 new packages which are not yet available in 14.2 and 3.2-prep branch: mint-y-icons and mint-y-themes. It's a beautiful theme and you can check the screenshots in my blog post.

known issue:
* There's a keyboard desklet which failed to load during startup
* Cinnamon screensaver failed to lock the desktop (upstream is aware and working on fix)

Thanks Willy, for all of the work that you do for our community!

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Thank you Willy.

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Thanks Willy!

BTW, if there is anything that you want to take out of my csb-extras to add to your builds please feel free. I will remove anything from mine that you add to yours. I've tried to keep up with them as much as I can, although I do need to check on them really soon here. Also, they are really kludged together so I think that they would benefit from someone like you that knows better than I do.

(PS. my nemo-seahorse needs help)

Hi Skaendo

Thanks for the efforts on providing csb-extras as compliment to my csb repository. I have added this into the CSB web page.

For now, i will keep the number of packages i added into my csb repository so that it's still in a manageable limit.

I notice that you also have mint-themes, which is already available on my csb repository.

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Thanks! That's awesome!

I see now that cinnamon-themes is a copy of mint-themes. Did that just change? Because I didn't notice the mint-x style themes in there before. That was one of the things that compelled me to make my SlackBuilds.

I'm not really sure about that, but i thought it is better to stick with cinnamon-* naming so i added it on my csb.

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I'm sure our usual friend will be along shortly to complain that you haven't furnished him with precompiled x86 packages.

I've never tried Cinnamon, but I'm keeping an open mind. How, in your experience, does it stack up against recent releases of MATE?

Both are good projects, but Cinnamon tends to consume more resource than MATE (based on my personal experience). Other than that, it's a just matter of preferences.

MATE is still using a mixed GTK+2/3 at this moment (They are moving to full GTK+3 in 1.18) while Cinnamon is fully utilizing GTK+3 so that's why they have already some nice feature such as High DPI support.

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Is csb compatible with a standard AlienBob's Plasma 5 setup ? (I can already say that AlienBob's Plasma can coexist with msb but I'm also curious about cinnamon).

Never tried but there should not be incompatibilities even though CSB replaces a couple of Slackware's stock packages (Plasma5 does that too but with other packages).
Note that these Cinnamon packages install PAM and Kerberos. My Plasma5 desktop is not built against PAM nor Kerberos so you will not gain from those when you are in Plasma 5 desktop.

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Thank you Eric!

I think it's better not to require neither PAM or Kerberos, so being free of those is not a bug but a feature

Seems that somebody has reported some issues to Clem

From mint blog:

I did that since it's a serious issue for me to have desktop locking no longer work (regression)

Thanks Willy!

Just customized the background (gradient vertical #ffffff => #002255).

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