Cinnamon, the desktop environment mostly associated with Linux Mint, has released its sixth version.
It also adds support for AVIF images, a new option for notification screen selection, a new gesture for desktop zoom, a new menu details option, color picker support in the screenshot service, and an xdg-portal configuration file.
Various improvements are present as well to fix missing thumbnails for windows that are created while the Menu applet is open, enable window resizing in the Cinnamon Menu Editor, fix a bug causing the Menu applet to be partly behind the panel, fix the Power applet’s battery status, fix reloading of desklets after an update when multiple instances are running, and ensure the Settings window fits the toolbar when expanded.
Cinnamon 6.0’s biggest new feature is an experimental Wayland session, marking the first steps towards fully supporting Wayland in the near future.
That is actually great. Cinnamon is heavily used desktop and moving it for Wayland will bring lot of new users.
Good… But from the amount of instability and memory leakage I’ve seen with Cinnamon, I sure hope they don’t write their own compositor.
It looks like it will be “their” compositor but I am not sure how much of it they are writing. As far as I can tell, they are forking the GNOME Wayland compositor for use in Cinnamon.