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I’d like to thank all of you for your support and your donations.
The development cycle for Linux Mint 21.2 was closed a few days ago. Most of the
projects have been tagged, built and added to the repositories for the upcoming release.
XDG Desktop Portal support was added to all supported desktops (Cinnamon, MATE and
Xfce). Among other things this brings a global dark mode setting.
This dark mode setting affects applications which support it and lets you choose
betweentothree
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Prefer light
Prefer dark
Let the applications decide
Among the many apps which support it, some are light by default (Firefox, Xed, Thingy,
Xreader) and some are dark by default (Xviewer, Pix). The setting is also supported by
many Flatpaks and GNOME/LibAdwaita applications.
The Software Manager was given a UI refresh, better scoring/sorting algorithms and a
tuned package list.
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Hello:
First of all, I want to thank the Linux Mint team for the great work they
do. I will never get tired of repeating it, thanks to you I was able to leave
Windows and stay in this wonderful world of Gnu Linux.
Would it be possible that the taskbar has rounded edges, and that there
is an application that allows to increase the horizontal space between
the icons on the taskbar?
Thank you very much and congratulations to the Linux Mint team and
your loved ones.
Alejandro
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guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/edge.html)
…but it seems the last Edge ISO was for 20.3 (with
kernel 5.19) while we’re heading for 21.1… not sure
why no newer Edge ISO is made available
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A question I have (and asked late last month, deep into the comments
section, so please pardon the repeat) is around the release of LMDE 6. I
believe a summer release in 2023 is a change in the cadence of the last
couple releases (roughly 7-8 months after the then-latest stable Debian
base). This is a pleasant change, and I’m wondering a) what led you and
your team to work on LMDE sooner and b) if this change will start a new
release schedule moving forward.
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As usual, thanks for all the beautiful work on Mint! You guys continue to
astound.
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Thanks in advance!.
PS.1 I hope that for Mint 21.2 they can update the Flatpak version, there
are security and compatibility improvements that are necessary.
PS.2 I hope you can consider adding the Tela icon theme, it is one of the
most complete
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If not, will LMDE 6 be using kernel 6.1 like bookworm is? I may decide to
switch from ubuntu based to debian based Mint for the support in the
newer kernel version.
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That’s it, sorry for putting these items here, I still have to �gure out
which page I can contribute ideas to the project.
Thanks.
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