



Cinnamon Spin

Summary

A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.

Owner

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 23

Last updated: 2015-05-06

Tracker bug: #1225865

Detailed Description

Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2. The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell. The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.

Benefit to Fedora

Cinnamon is a popular desktop alternative to Gnome 3 and this spin provides the option to quickly try and install this desktop.

Scope

Proposal owners: Track existing Cinnamon desktop environment group, and test the Spin.

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has been tested, and release with rest of spins

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

Test booting and usage of live CD, installation from live CD, and resulting installed system.

Boot and auto-login to Cinnamon

Functionality of desktop, panel, menu, windows

Themes of panel/menu, windows, controls, icons

Default panel launchers and menu favorites

Install and verify functionality after install

User Experience

Users will have a new option for trying and installing Fedora.

Dependencies

Cinnamon Desktop is already in Fedora.

Trademark approval from Fedora Council is required.

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Cinnamon will continue to be installable as a secondary desktop.

Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Blocks product? N/A

Documentation

Spins Page

Slogan

Traditional layout, advanced features, easy to use.

Spin description

Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2. The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell. The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.

Screenshot

Download tab

Default layout

Features

Online

Firefox

Hexchat

Pidgin

Transmission

Utilities

GNOME Terminal

Cinnamon Settings

Office

LibreOffice

Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.



Multimedia

Parole

Shotwell Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer, viewer, and editor.

Brasero Brasero is a simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application.



Support tab

Help via IRC chat in the #fedora-cinnamon IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

General help via default IRC, Email and Forum channels.

News and add-ons available at http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

Custom branding

None available.

Release Notes

The Cinnamon desktop is now available as a Spin for Fedora 23. Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment based on the GNOME Shell, with advanced features and a traditional and flexible user experience. See the Cinnamon official website for more information on Cinnamon, and go to http://spins.fedoraproject.org to download the Spin.