Cinnamon 1.4 released [LWN.net]

Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 12:45 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (guest, #27876)
In reply to: Cinnamon 1.4 released by donbarry
Parent article: Cinnamon 1.4 released

Perhaps users who see the desktop as cellphone: play with one app for several minutes, switch to one other for several more minutes of amusement, will find it a useful paradigm -- I do not.

Actually, there is fairly little in GNOME 3 that makes it accomodate cell-phones. In fact, it's quite the opposite:

It makes the user-interface more keyboard driven, by offering Spotlight/GNOME Do-like search as a central user interface element.
It makes focuses on managing may Windows, with Exposé-like window management and application/window switching behavior.

Despite its deficiencies (e.g. fairly limited applets), I like it much more for use with big screens (plus keyboard) than GNOME 2.

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