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Video: لينكس منت سينامن - Linux Mint Cinnamon: كيف تصمم سمة خاصة بك لواجهة سينامن وتحسن الخطوط العربية بها

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:57:57 +0000

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Video: Linux Mint 15 avec un bureau ultra facile à utiliser

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:37:24 +0000

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Video: how to install linux mint and ubuntu on a usb to create a bootabal flash drive

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:36:20 +0000

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Video: LinuxMint

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:32 +0000

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Video: Linux MInt 15: Wireless Driver Nightmare!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:46:38 +0000

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Segfault: Window snapping in action

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:35:45 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of talking to sell my idea to the team and to you here at Segfault. It matured a lot since the beginning and mtwebster started the implementation so we could tinker with it and experiment with using it rather than talking about abstract concepts.

So, for the very first time, I was able to snap windows in Cinnamon… and I can tell you already, I LOVE IT! I hate the way it works (because it’s only half-done mostly) but I already use it a lot.

As I said to the team, by the time Cinnamon 2.0 is out, I want everybody’s grandma to tile and snap windows like there’s no tomorrow. It will rock and it will be trivial to use. Right now though, it’s still pretty much ALPHA. We’re still defining what we want it to do and how we want to interact with it and the current implementation is extremely rough around the “edges” :)

Here’s a preview of it in action. In all the screenshots below, Totem is “snapped” and the Terminal is “maximized”. As you can see, one key advantage of snapping a window, is that maximized windows do not cover it.

Playing videos on the side (totem snapped at 1/4-right)

You can snap at the bottom too… 1/4 bottom here

… or at the top

Watching a race (totem snapped at 1/2-left)

Please don’t mind the bugs (lack of borders etc..), it’s not yet supposed to be stable.

Video: What to do after installing Linux Mint 15 Olivia

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:44:07 +0000

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Video: Linux Mint 15.0 mit MATE Überblick

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:03:13 +0000

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News: Apologies for the downtime

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:56:57 +0000

Due to a power outage in one of our datacenters, two of our servers went down:

packages.linuxmint.com (the main repository)
debian.linuxmint.com (the LMDE repository)

The situation was not critical, since both of these repositories are mirrored (http://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php), but the downtime lasted approximately 8 hours.

The situation seems to be completely resolved now and both servers are back online and fully operational.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience, the lack of communication and the time it took to solve this issue.

Segfault: Better window management

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:32:21 +0000

This is a follow-up post on http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/06/putting-a-window-aside/

After some design discussions with the team and some experimentation with the code, I decided to temporarily leave the idea of a “snap view” aside and to see if we could solve the problem described in the previous post simply by improving the paradigms we already had. In other words, rather than developing new views, new components (like a side dock in which you’d embed a window) , new plugins (such as Expo and Scale), maybe we can just make Cinnamon windows smarter…

Improving edge-tiling

In GNOME, and currently in Cinnamon, you can move a window to the edge of the screen and perform something called “edge-tiling”. As a result, the window is put in a state called TILED and it occupies either the left half or the right half of your monitor.

In KDE, you can do the same and more: KDE defines not 1 but 3 edges on each side of the monitor, allowing you to tile windows at 1/2 of the monitor’s width, or to give them 1/4 corner of it. For instance, tiling a window to the left, makes the window occupy the left half of your screen, but if you move it to the top left edge, it will occupy the top-left 1/4 of your screen.

GNOME makes it easy to work with two windows, one of the left and one of the right. KDE does that just as well, but also makes it easy to work with 3 windows, one on one side, two on the other.. or 4 windows, one on each corner.

So already, we’ve identified one way of making Cinnamon better, we should support what KDE does… i.e. not only 1/2 width tiling, but also corner-tiling.

Improving discoverability

Edge-tiling, edge-flipping, edge-snapping… all these concepts have complicated names and aren’t well known to the public. But what they do makes a lot of sense to everybody. Novices users would enjoy these features and rely on them if we made them more discoverable, trivial to understand and comfortable to use.

One of the key things here in Cinnamon is that these zones are not noticeable or even visible. When you’re ready to drop a window onto an edge, the window manager highlights the dimensions of what the window will be after it is tiled. This is great but it isn’t enough. We need to highlight the edge itself, and if we have 3 different edges we need to make it clear to people what it is they do.

So when you start moving a window, you should notice these features. If Cinnamon gets the feeling you’re interested in tiling, snapping or flipping a window… it should show you what you can do with it.

Improving edge-flipping

Edge-flipping is the action of moving to an adjacent workspace and bringing a window with you. The problem with edge-flipping in Cinnamon 1.8, is that it uses the same edge as edge-tiling… and consequently you can’t really use both at the same time. Of course there’s no reason why people might only like one or the other, and so it’s important we allow users to use both. By making edges more discoverable, we should be able to have not only edge-tiling zones on the side of the screen, but also to show some arrow or zone which the user can move the window to in order to perform edge-flipping.

Improving edge-snapping

Edge-tiling is commonly called “Aero Snap” and the problem I raised in the previous post is somewhat new. So if you’re confused with the terms I’m using, it’s completely normal. We might find a better word than “snap” for this new concept, but for now that’s how we call it :)

So.. although edge-tiling is commonly called “Aero Snap” and people don’t see a difference between “tiling” and “snapping”, there are two radical use cases at play here and they have very little in common.

If I want to put something aside and keeping an eye on it while doing my work, I don’t want it to interfere with my work and I don’t want other windows to interfere with it. This is what I call “snapping”.
If I want to work with multiple windows, I want to be able to resize them quickly and to give them as much space as possible. This is what I call “tiling”.

What we have in Cinnamon 1.8, is some kind of compromise between the two, which isn’t actually very good at solving either of the two use cases. If you “edge-tile” a window to the left in Cinnamon 1.8, it takes the left half side of your screen… and that’s great… but look at the limitations it has:

You can’t resize your tiled window.. so if instead of 1/2 of my monitor’s width I want the window to take 1/4, I have to un-tile it and resize it myself. In other words, tiling is no good at quickly placing windows where I want. It’s only good at placing them in predefined spaces (1/2 in Cinnamon, and corners as well in KDE).
If I maximize other windows, they cover my tiled windows… and that’s not what I want. Say I tiled Totem to the left to watch a video while I’m working… I have to remind myself not to maximize anything if I don’t want it to cover the playback.

So instead of that, we could implement edge-tiling differently… whereas it would not be an action which changes the state of the window, but simply an action which actually moves and resizes the window. The window would consequently not be stuck to the side and you would be able to move it and resize it.

And then we could introduce proper “snapping”. Something that would be similar to what edge-tiling is in Cinnamon 1.8, i.e. a window state where the window isn’t resizable, where it’s stuck to the side but where it’s immune to the maximizing of other windows.

Video: Linux freedom FreeCAD version 0.13 | terminal-Remove, Install | Linux Mint / Ubuntu

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:23:00 +0000

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:28:34 +0000

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Video: Add Open as Administrator in Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 15/14/13 & Relevant Ubuntu Distro's

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:14:44 +0000

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Video: Distro Review Linux Mint 9 Isadora

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:30:15 +0000

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Video: Linux Mint Spiele selbst programmieren mit Basic teil 2

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:47:59 +0000

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:45:18 +0000

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Video: Install Apple Art-Icons in Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Mint 15 Zorin Os 7

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:09:41 +0000

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Video: Linux Mint Spiel selbst programmieren

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:50:17 +0000

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:06:12 +0000

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:22:45 +0000

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