Saturday, June 2, 2012

cinnamon in f16


A short screenshot tour of my Cinnamon desktop in Fedora 16.

The desktop, showing a few running applications from the current workspace:



I'd like to be able to do the following things: have the panel not be full-length across the screen; show icons-only for running applications; show running apps from all workspaces; and have two rows for the workspace pager instead of just one.


Here's the desktop with the main menu open:



My Favorites are in a column along the left side. The menu's fairly easy to navigate, and the search feature works great for finding an app by name.


The Expo overview with three workspaces enabled:



In Expo mode, if you move the cursor over one of the workspaces, the running windows separate and you can click on any one window to go directly to that app:



The Cinnamon settings window:



The Hot Corner settings window:



Desktop effects:



Panel settings:



The full screen with the desktop right-click menu opened, showing entries I added with Nautilus-Actions:



I prefer using GNOME Shell instead of Cinnamon, but I'm trying to keep an open mind and give Cinnamon a fair shot. It's definitely a nice desktop -- looks good, easy enough to get around.

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