Cinnamon 1.6 Released with New Features

Cinnamon desktop environment has just received a new release that brings numerous new features and bug fixes.

Changelog (version 1.6):

• Workspace names
• Window quicklists applet
• Notifications applet
• Configurable Alt-Tab features like thumbnails and window previews
• Improved sound applet
• Edge flip
• Grid view in expo
• Configurable panel heights
• Panel auto-hide delay options
• Expo and Scale applets
• Brightness applet
• Mouse scroll to switch windows in window list applet
• “Close all” and “Close other” in window list applet
• Backgrounds selection
• Nemo integration
• Cinnamon 2D (A new session which uses software rendering, to help people troubleshoot compatibility problems with Cinnamon)
• Workspaces and Menu pages in Cinnamon Settings
• Faster menu filtering
• Menu activation on hover
• Settings applet is now part of the panel context menu
• New widgets (for Applet developers): radio buttons and checkboxes
• Many bug fixes
• Full changelog here

If you want to try out Cinnamon 1.6 in Ubuntu 12.04, install it from Cinnamon nightly PPA by running commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cinnamon muffin nemo

This is experimental PPA that hosts development builds. You can wait for stable PPA to get updated if you don't want to use a nightly PPA on your system.

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