Cinnamon 3.0 ready for launch, meet its new features

Cinnamon 3.0. it is ready for launch. For those who don't know, Cinnamon is nothing more than a fork of GNOME Shell, which was originally developed by Linux Mint, with the intention of offering a slightly more traditional desktop environment based on the desktop metaphor like GNOME 2..

It should also be noted that Cinnamon currently has some of the most active development communities and also with better support for its users.

Find out what the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment release brings

As of April 25, the development cycle of the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment has ended . and in the next Linux Mint 18 distribution called Sarah, it will be ready for release approximately June-July.

One of the managers of the Linux Mint project , Clemente Lefebvre, began to give some details on his blog about the new version of Cinnamon several days ago, so some of its most popular users were eagerly awaiting its release.

If you want to know what are the new features that take place in this new version of Cinnamon do not stop reading.

First of all you should know that it has numerous bug fixes in addition to the new features:

• Adding new default application buttons. Support for displaying the actions of the launcher panel. Sound adjustments. New option that allows users to show or hide the Favbox in the Applet menu. The sound panel has a custom configuration option that should prevent the sound effects dialog that will open in a window above.

In addition to this in Cinnamon 3.0 users will be able to mute all volume controls at once, rename battery powered devices via the power settings panel, all within the Cinnamon control center, and This is intended to correct the operation of wireless controls and controls such as those of the PS4, you can also disable all extensions at once and make the most of your portable touchpad, thanks to the new configuration of the touch panel.

The touchpad option called Natural Displacement is now called Reverse Displacement Direction

There are many other fixes as well as performance improvements, however, these are the most notable, we know that knowing them all will be very happy with the changes.