14 DAY TRIAL // After informing the community a few days ago about the Mintbox Mini Pro PC and the upcoming improvements and new features shipping with the XApps software projects in Linux Mint 18.1, Clement Lefebvre just published the monthly Linux Mint newsletter.
In the newsletter, the Linux Mint project leader reveals the fact that the upcoming Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment, which will ship by default with the Linux Mint 18.1 operating system, the next major release of the popular Ubuntu-based distribution, will feature support for vertical panels, a functionality that has been requested for a long time, as well as improved support for accelerometers.
"These little sensors allow your desktop to automatically rotate based on the orientation of the screen. If you rotate the laptop, or the screen, Cinnamon rotates with it. It’s particularly handy when showing something to a person in front of you, or when watching a movie with the lid titled at 270 degrees, or even when using a laptop in tablet-mode for hot-seat games with the lid flat on its back at 360 degrees," says Clement Lefebvre.
Bumblebee improvements in Cinnamon
But that's not all that's coming to the Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment later this year, as the development team is also planning on adding various improvements for Bumblebee users, who will finally be able to launch applications using the optirun feature via the menu. Additionally, you'll be able to take a quick peek at your Cinnamon desktop using the Show Desktop applet.
Ultimately, Cinnamon 3.2 will come with a much-improved background handling functionality and an amazing new screensaver. As always, the Linux Mint team is looking forward to your suggestions and feature requests before launching the Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment and Linux Mint 18.1 operating system later this year. Stay tuned!
