The Cinnamon Desktop, the GTK desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project, has just released version 6.4. The focus of this release is on nips and tucks in the default theme, dialogs, menus, and other user interface elements. They seem to have taken a few pages out of GNOME’s book, especially when it comes to dialogs and the OSD, which honestly makes sense considering Cinnamon is also GTK and most Cinnamon users will be running a ton of GNOME/Libadwaita applications.
There’s also a new night light feature to reduce eyestrain, vastly improved options for power profiles and management, and more. Cinnamon 6.4 will be part of Linux Mint’s next major release, coming in late December, but is most likely already making its way to various other distributions’ repositories.
I’ve never understood why the energy management features like blue/red shifting are left to 3rd party apps, surely it’s time for this to become a basic built in feature available across the board for all OS.
I make this suggestion in almost complete relative ignorance of the technicalities.
I’m a long term Linux Mint user, but almost 100% Mate with some Xfce, not a single Cinnamon!