Linux Mint 12 RC1 Review
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I have some good and bad news for you. The good news is Linux Mint 12 is shipping with Gnome 3 which means you will get to you the ‘best of the breed’ desktop environment. The bad news is as we were expecting that Linux Mint will maintain the same user experience of Gnome was not entirely true.
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Still the Linux Mint team has tried its best to retain as much functionality as possible -- thanks to Gnome shell extensions that I am writing about in the Fedora review. Special thanks goes to Ron Yorston, who has done a lot of work to create extensions to offer Gnome 2 functionality to Gnome 3 Shell, something Ubuntu is dearly missing.
Linux Mint is using quite a lot of these extensions. Some important extensions are Bottom Panel, which creates a bottom panel so that you can see your currently running apps without having to dance your mouse around to find which apps are running.
It has also moved the clock to the right using the ‘move-clock’ extension. One area where Linux Mint team has done extra work is Linux Mint Menu which offers an experience similar to the previous Lancelot Menu that Linux Mint was using. Full Story |
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