Re: [PLUG] Cinnamon desktop?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:22:13 -0500
> From: "Eric at Lucii.org"<eric@lucii.org>

> Did you try Cinnamon?  What was your experience if you did?

Yes, I upgraded my main workstation to Ubuntu 12.04 + 
cinnamon-1.6.7-0ubuntu1~precise1 and so far I am quite happy.  It is 
very similar to the Gnome2 layout I built a lot of habits around, while 
still being more modern.

In particular you get SUPER-L+<start typing> to run commands, just like 
Unity or Gnome shell or whatever.  But it only finds commands, it 
doesn't search elsewhere (it especially doesn't send my search strings 
to Canonical or Amazon!).  I'm not sure what the default search thingy 
would be, I'm still using my previous Recoll install.

I miss the Gnome clock's light/dark map and multiple time-zone clocks 
(though not enough to actually do anything about it).  The Weather 
indicator is a little buggy, but at least it doesn't constantly crash 
like the one in 12.04 Unity.

Oh yeah, the ALT-TAB switcher is a zillion times better than whatever 
crappy one I was using in Ubuntu 10.04, and I like it a lot more than 
the Unity one too.  (Yeah, I know I can change it, I tried in 10.04 and 
didn't like any of them.  I think I tried in 12.04 Unity and didn't like 
any either.)

And the controls to specify where the windows controls (-_x) are is 
great too.  They are back on the right where they belong, though I admit 
I see the point of having them on the left when so much mouse activity 
happens up top-left.  On Unity it works for me, here I like 'em where 
they were.

Otherwise, things are basically the same except better, which for me is 
perfect and just what I wanted.

Later,
JP
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