First Peak at the New Cinnamon Theme | Linux Mint

Today we get a peak at the new Cinnamon theme to launch as the default to Cinnamon outside of Linux Mint.
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[MrBobbybrady]

Just donated a couple of days ago to Linux Mint. So appreciative to all of the folks out there dedicating their time to a free and open operating system and software. Whether you contribute to Arch, Debian, Mint..., Thank you to all of the contributors out there. If it wasn't for you MS would steam roll our privacy, rights, and choices with even more selfish vigor than they already do. Thank you for holding the threads of our privacy and choices together.

[lucastrever]

sorry if i'm wrong, but shouldn't it be spelled "peek"?

[davewagler]

I presume you mean peek as in look, rather than peak as in mountain.

[oraz.]

I agree about the heavily rounded trend

[BAN]

Honestly I like Mint theme as it is. If I wanted something that's 'more modern' like the new ones, I'd just use GNOME or KDE.

[seaneverett]

Hopefully there's some fixes besides just a re-skin. As someone who moved to Linux as the (now only, not even dual-boot) primary with Cinnamon as my Desktop Environment, there's several pet-peeves I have with it (Debian 12, unstable aka: "Sid" with Cinnamon), like I'm so used to left-clicking the speaker icon and just mouse-wheeling the volume which doesn't work if your mouse shifts off that tiny icon or isn't hovered over the slider within that context menu popup. Windows would adjust the volume no matter where your mouse was as long as that context menu remains open (like didn't click-focus some other window)

Another SUPER obnoxious thing to get used to for me is windows behavior... you got Auto/Cursor/Manual/Center, where with auto, who knows where an app will startup on your screen.. It's wherever it can fit. Cursors terrible if you launch from the "start" area menu, manuals not ideal, and Center happens to be the most "least-obtrusive" to give you the option to drag it off-center to where ever is best... What ever happened to the good old tried and true "Cascade" where applications would offset from the top-left by N x, y until such a move would push it partly off the edge of the screen, to which it'd revert to an X of 0 and a bigger Y value and cascade again?

All in all I do enjoy the move. Been the most successful run thus far of committing to the switch, has come a LONG ways since I started using Linux, but there tends to be a lot of subtle simple minor overlooked features I really miss that in my opinion, windows did right. (Not gonna leave a novel of 'em all, but these are the two that drive me bonkers on a daily basis) I'm sure I'll get flamed for that comment, and I'm sure over time I'll get used to the things that annoy me (or hopefully they become implemented as well so I don't have to just "get used-to it").

[e]

The default Mint theme problem is not Cinnamon, it's the wallpaper. It's just grey everywhere 😂

[harveybc]

Looks interesting. Like the functional updates and improvements. That is where I'd hope most of the development time is spent. As to the looks, that is neither here nor there. Have no problem with the looks of even the default version 21. I customize to what I want anyway and after dealing with Win8, anything is better.

[siwiecministro]

Dark themes "resurgence" is connected with battery saving on OLED displays, AFAIK. Usability-wise this argument was settled when we moved from DOS to first Windows systems. Light theme is the way to go. Generally we didn't have dark themes for decades (apart from "accessibility" modes for vision-impaired people). Dark themes just kill my eyes.
Rounded corners (or even full-circles) is another contemporary abomination. Small roundings in a few places would be OK, but pushing this everywhere makes it totally unbearable.
Another abomination is using less and less native toolkits. It is no wonder that though our computers are getting somewhat faster our systems get slower and slower. In Linux "native" mean GTK or Qt. Clutter sounds like layer on top of another layer. Or perhaps "repackaged" Chrome pretending to be UI. This is probably why scrolling directory c:\windows\system32 in Explorer in Win7/10 is blazingly fast but scrolling /usr/bin in Linux Mint is as slow as it can be; or scrolling Excel spreadsheet in Excel 2000/2003/2007 is/was blazingly fast, but doing so in contemporary versions is abominably slow. Do people not care about performance anymore? Is this remote (pretend) work made people so neutered that they don't care anymore that everything is so slow nowadays?
Finally scrollbars - I don't understand why everybody is killing them. Has anybody tried changing fonts in gtk desktops? Since there are no "steppers" on scrollbars, one must be very precise in what they are pressing there, otherwise it moves all over the place and with font previews enabled and smooth scrolling (another abomination), it lasts forever.
Where are themes like KDE3 Polyester theme? There was never theme more beautiful than Polyester with Tahoma font. :)

[Amos_Huclkeberry]

Does Cinnamon let users match the accent color to the wallpaper like KDE Plasma does?

[kychemclass]

It's possible the red 'message box' coloration is used on the critical choice (the one that will cause a change).
I'm on LM 21.3 and I'm completely happy with things the way they are. I'm totally not into change for change sake. I think the Mint team might be under peer pressure / trying to attract less set-in-their-ways, i.e. younger, users as me. I hope they provide a 21.3 Cinnamon theme archive.

[dezmondwhitney]

Well done Cinnamon, a great desktop environment.

[doveofdestiny]

Strangely 22.1 looks like it has way more features than 22

[richardbaker]

I will never be a cinnamon or mate or kde or open box or ice weasel desktop environment fan!! Xfce for me

[zooziz]

If it doesnt have mint green accents I'm not using it. I still dont understand why they went away from green accounts as default, they are mint after all. Always use it

[rajatanpacelana]

Well its time to do some distrohopping going back to cinnamon

[lawrencecavens]

What I would greatly Appreciate is the Linux team getting away from this tiny control buttons for closing a window / minimizing a window / and expanding a window - these control buttons need to be much Much BIGGER. up to 50% bigger, - the only alternative is downloading a theme - which can be done - but is a bit annoying ...

[donanderson]

I don't think Cinnamon is ugly but it is boring to look at. That gray color all over the place is meh.

[tonywise]

Rounded corners smacks of Windows 11. We don't need a Windows look to Cinnamon, as I commented on the Mint Blog. It is just eye-candy. Might have to go to XFCE?

[UbuntuPersonNoMint]

When will they make cinnamon look unique and not like a broke mans window's?