Cinnamon 3.2 Desktop Environment to Adopt New Menu Layout, Add Many Improvements

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Thanks to a news tip we’ve received earlier today, we now know that work on the next major release of the Cinnamon desktop environment has apparently begun, and a lot of improvements are being planned for Cinnamon 3.2 later this year.

Yes, that’s right, Cinnamon 3.2 will be the drop-in replacement for the current stable release of the acclaimed desktop environment, Cinnamon 3.0, which has been officially shipped today, June 30, 2016, to users of the Linux Mint operating system as part of the Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” announcement.

So now that Linux Mint 18 is officially out, it’s time for the developers of the Ubuntu-based distribution to concentrate all of their efforts on the next major release, Linux Mint 18.1. You might want to know that it will ship with Cinnamon 3.2 and MATE 1.16 desktop environments, as well as with numero… (read more)