On 01/29/2012 12:35 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > > > Anyone out there have used Linux Mint 12 with LO? Yes with Gnome 3, Clem added some features to Gnome 3 so that the DE has features from 2.X in addition to the normal Gnome 3 for Linux Mint 12.
I believe Cinnamon and Mate are alternate DE's. Cinnamon, I believe, is new DE while Mate is a fork/continuation of Gnome 2. Cinnamon 1.2 is considered stable and has been released. I have briefly looked at Cinnamon and as I remember I had no problems with LO or any other packages I had tried. > > This is actually a developer's question, but needs to be asked of the > Users as well. > > Does anyone know if LO works with the Cinnamon, which is a "shell" [I > think that is the correct term] that is placed over GNOME 3.x so it > looks and works like GNOME2.x? I remember that there was some issues > with LO working with GNOME 3.x desktop environment's way of displaying > "windows". Since the 2.x project is closed and people were going to > other distros and desktops due to their dislike of GNOME 3.x, Linux > Mint decided to develop a way for people to have their GNOME 2.x > style of desktop on 3.x. It seemed that people were going to Mint > since they still supported 2.x, but when they could no longer get it > from their source [Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, with another Mint a fork > of Debian] they had to provide a GNOME 2.x style of desktop shell to > keep their users happy. > > Cinnamon is not stable, according to the web site. It is on Linux > Mint 12, and either in the repository, a Git repository, or in a PPA > for; Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, OpenSUSE 12.1, Arch Linux, and Gentoo. > > I have not tried it, since I am still using Ubuntu 10.04. I did not > like Ubuntu's switch to GNOME3 and could not use it with my needs. So > I was stuck with 10.xx. If LO will support that desktop shell > combination, I will now be able to look into having a more up-to-date > OS, other than what Ubuntu places in its 10.04 repository updates. At > least 10.04 now shows LO 3.4.4-402 as the latest version in the > repository, which I installed from LO's web site when it came out. > > http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61 > > With Win 8 going to the Tablet-style of desktop environment, like > GNOME 3 seems to be as well, there is talk about many users will > either have to back-port it to Win 7 or go to Linux. If Linux is > chosen, then they have to use something other than the standard GNOME > 3 desktop. > > For myself, I use a combination of GNOME2.x and KDE since there are > packages in KDE that are better than GNOME 2.x's version and some of > GNOME 2.x works better than KDE for me for the actual desktop. Many of > the KDE system monitoring and modification packages are easier for me > to use over GNOME 2.x versions. So I have a "interesting" setup. > Now, if I can get a replacement drive for my test system, I will try > Mint 12 with Cinnamon, but it may take time to get that really old > system [bios will not work with any Windows newer than Win ME, not > even Win2000] a replacement drive. So it will be awhile before I can > test Cinnamon with LO, and I would like to know if it does work well > with LO. > > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
