Cinnamon Spices VS Atril

That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for, thank you! Are all applets from the cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com store safe to use? I admittedly never really understood how this stuff is monitored for malicious code. Source: 11 months ago

Nice! Post them on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com and share, if you could. I'm sure others would love them! Source: about 1 year ago

Since you are using Cinnamon, you could also check out Cinnamon Spices. Source: about 1 year ago

You can install Cinnamox themes in Mint's theme settings or download them from Cinnamon Spices. Source: about 1 year ago

It's definitely not a DE-agnostic question. I don't use Cinnamon, but I searched around the official add-on site (https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/) and didn't see anything that did exactly that... Source: over 1 year ago

I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems." https://mate-desktop.org/ Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of... - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation. However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/ https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-7d96c3287f7... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts, system trays) and gives them a color-adjustable window theme inspired by 90's aesthetics, with minimal compositing that can run fast on hardware as minimal as a prototype RISC-V board. Or... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Some people deliberately put mate on their PCs. Source: about 1 year ago

I have been using MATE for a couple of years now on an Intel Mac mini and it works... mostly. Things I am not a fan of: 1) Snap packages. For anyone that chimes in about how wonderful they are I have yet to see any evidence of that and, please, do show me how you launch OpenShot Video Editor because, well, it doesn't. 2) X-Windows. I'm sorry, but this should be brain-dead simple as running xhost+ on the device you... Source: about 1 year ago