Cinnamon 5.8 released: bringing a new desktop environment experience

According to news on June 8, the latest version of Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment has been released and is already available on Arch Download and use it from the Linux stable software repository. This update brings several new features and improvements to users.

Cinnamon One of the main highlights of 5.8 is support for the XDG desktop portal. According to the editor's understanding, this feature enhances compatibility with Flatpak applications and GNOME/libadwaita applications, and provides better support for the screenshot function.

In addition, Cinnamon 5.8 also brings global dark mode settings to applications that support the feature. Users can choose light colors, black, or let the application decide on its own.

Also, Cinnamon 5.8 also adds support for touchpad, touch screen and tablet gestures, which can be used for window management, workspace management, tiling and media control, further improving the user's operating experience.

This version also introduces a new concept called "styles" to make the desktop environment more beautiful. There are three modes to choose from, including blend mode, dark mode, and light mode, as well as an accent color to suit every style. In blended mode, most applications use light colors, while some desktop elements use dark colors for a contrasting effect.

In addition to the above updates, Cinnamon 5.8 also redesigned tooltips to be more consistent across different GTK versions (GTK2, GTK3) and Cinnamon, and started using accent colors. Tooltips are now larger and rounder, with appropriate spacing between applets so they don’t look crowded on the panel.

Notifications are also starting to use accent colors and use symbol icons wherever possible. Note that the accent color option is only available on Linux Theme panels for distributions other than Mint, but users can change this through advanced settings.

Also, Cinnamon Nemo, the default file manager in 5.8, now supports multi-threaded thumbnails, a performance improvement that makes opening large folders faster. Nemo requires less CPU resources when generating thumbnails and is able to generate multiple thumbnails in parallel instead of one at a time.

Cinnamon 5.8 also brings improvements to some applets, including grouped window lists and sound applets. Additionally, the menu applet can now be resized using the mouse pointer, and there is a new button in settings to restore its original size. Users can also edit menus faster through the applet's right-click context menu.

In addition to the above updates, Cinnamon 5.8 also adds some new keyboard shortcuts, such as the ability to twist the mouse pointer in a multi-monitor setup, and the ability to twist the mouse pointer by clicking in the mouse key to paste the currently selected function. Additionally, users can disable low battery warnings for connected devices in the power management settings.

Cinnamon 5.8 also passes vga_switcheroo The Linux subsystem implements GPU offloading on laptops with mixed graphics and adds a new option to Windows' Alt Tab settings to adjust the mouse pointer to the newly focused window after the Alt Tab operation is complete.

This update also updates CJS (Cinnamon Javascript interpreter), based on GJS 1.74 and using SpiderMonkey (libmozjs) 102, thus improving the performance of Cinnamon.

Currently, Cinnamon 5.8 has landed in the Arch Linux stable software repository, and is expected to soon land in the repositories of other popular distributions. Cinnamon 5.8 will become the default desktop environment for the upcoming Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" distribution.

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