Cinnamon 3.8 Desktop Environment Released with Python 3 Support, Improvements

517

While not yet officially announced, the Cinnamon 3.8 desktop environment has been released and it’s already available in the repositories of some popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as Arch Linux.

Scheduled to ship with the upcoming Linux Mint 19 “Tara” operating system series this summer, the Cinnamon 3.8 desktop environment is now available for download and it’s a major release that brings numerous improvements, new features, and lots of Python 3 ports for a bunch of components.

Among the components that got ported to Python 3 in the Cinnamon 3.8 release, we can mention cinnamon-settings, cinnamon-menu-editor, cinnamon-desktop-editor, cinnamon-settings-users, melange, background slideshow, the switch editor and screensaver lock dialogs, desktop file generation scripts, as well as all the utilities.

Read more at Softpedia