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Improvements selected for the future
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Mint 17
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mdm: stopping the MDM service prevents access to the TTYs. Using Ctrl+Alt+F2 only works when MDM is running. Thus, there’s no way to run anything in a TTY unless the X server is running.
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Can’t play TS video files
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The add-apt-repository command doesn’t work with “gksu” and “pkexec” which causes various scripts that require this to break under Linux Mint 16 (Y PPA Manager tool for instance).
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mintinstall "show all results" not l10n
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mintinstall: show license info
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windows compatibility layer
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bring back hardinfo
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mintlocale: * Number/Dates/Currency Settings – i live in Dubai after installation, it will give me an english system with numbers, dates and currencies in arabic, which i used to be able to change into english from the ‘regional formats’ tab of ‘language support’. But with the current dialog, i can only set the full system to be english or arabic now.
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mintlocale: Right-to-Left Dialogs – i changed the system language to ‘Arabic, United Arab Emirates’ and the ‘Language Settings’ dialog doesnt show things correctly – http://i.imgur.com/RhKKFhO.png
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mintlocale: missing ibus activation support
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mintsources: missing a key.
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mintsources: doesn't show name of "cdrom" correctly.
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mintsources: doesn’t show any progress bar and it seems to test mirrors one by one instead of doing it in parallel.
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Cinnammon
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systray icons aren't clickable
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desktop icons text color is too dark and barely visible on a dark background
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Bluetooth headset connects, but cannot stream audio and does not show up in pulseaudio as valid output device.
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Nemo conflicts with fcitx, the best chinese input method. I can’t rename anything in Nemo with fcitx.
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the zoom doesn’t zoom IN on a reboot after you activate it. however, if you first zoom OUT, all works as advertised after that.
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Cinnamon isn’t scaling user defined panel sizes properly. If I select Numix as my theme and set a customised panel size, when clicking Allow Cinnamon to Scale Panel Text and Icons, the text on the right side of the panel bar seems to go a bit blurry. This didn’t happen on the last release. The update shield sometimes goes wonky too which I assume is related.
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The power button set to “shut down immediately” still ‘asks’
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The cinnamon-sound-applet’s icon renders incorrectly in i3wm’s system tray (it was fine with the version of cinnamon that shipped with LM16 and the same version of i3 (4.7.2)). I was able to get it working via brute force specifying the path to the icon, but it would be nice if it worked out of the box.
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System Settings/ Panel/ Auto Hide Options (either checked), System Settings/ Applets/ Menu/ Configure/ (check “open the menu when I move my mouse over it”). With these two options checked together the menu will preform a disconcerting bounce up or down, usually away from the user.
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When trying to connect my ext.hard drive via smb when double clicking on the globe icon (workgroup) nemo closes down
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System Settings > Display won’t let me set the one on the right as primary. The “Set as Primary” button is grayed. It’s connected as DVI. The other monitor’s “Set as Primary” is not grayed. It’s connected as VGA. This is related to a very longstanding issue of Mint always opening dialogs on the left (wrong) monitor
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Network setting does not let me to set Proxy.. The button “set system wide” is not there.
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Cinnamon popups for brightness and volume adjust seem to flash when repeatedly hitting the key. In Mint 16, the popups stayed smoothly on the screen for the duration of the adjustment.
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menu: I like the way the panel icons and those on the desktop change subtly when you hover over them. Any reason why the menu icons could not behave the same way for consistency ?
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I can’t seem to create a new item in Menu Editor. After typing in the name of the new item and the command, the OK button is not available to click.
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With autohide on and Show delay above 0 the window will autohide the moment the cursor goes over a icon (launcher, apps, window tabs) making it impossible to click anything.
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l10n:
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System Settings -> Windows: The options in the four drop-down boxes “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar right-click” and “Window focus mode”.
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Language Settings: “Apply System-Wide”, “Install / Remove Languages”, the associated tool tips and all the text.
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System Settings -> Network -> Proxy: The options under Method.
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System Settings -> Graphics Tablet: “No tablet detected – please plug in or turn on your graphics tablet”
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System Settings -> Software Sources: Text in Maintenance button
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System Settings -> Fonts: Options in the two drop-down boxes Antialiasing and Hinting.
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System Settings -> Applets/Desklets/Extensions/Themes: Blue text “More info” (right-clicking opens a menu that is translated)
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System Settings -> Monitor: Options in the drop-down box Rotation
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System Settings -> Desklets: The buttons Highlight and Remove (configuring a desklet).
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l10n: Menu Editor: “Main Menu” (title bar), “New Menu”, New Item”, “Move Up”, “Move Down”, “Restore System Configuration”.
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settings: The search box in System Settings displays “Search…” next to the magnifier.
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cinnamon-settings: datetime module, months, regions, lot of things aren't l10n'd
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nemo: desktop font look like it’s antialiased wrong, like it’s using wrong pixel order – BGR instead of RGB.
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settings: nemo desktop font is not configurable in cinnamon-settings fonts
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cinnamon-settings-daemon: Super+e should open file manager
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cinnamon-settings: network - proxy - button ON/OFF doesn't do anything
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settings: The buttons in the system settings seem to be sorted according the english names, but I’m using dutch, so the sorting looks really random.
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settings: mintdrivers - The name “Device Drivers” is used in the main Cinnamon Control Centre but once you open it the name at the top of the window is “Driver Manager”. The names should be the same for consistency.
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settings: mdm - The name of the login screen in the main Cinnamon Control Centre is different to the window when you open it (Login Screen in the main Cinnamon Control Centre vs Login Window Preferences). The names should be the same for consistency.
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settings: mouse - The Cinnamon drag threshold and GTK drag threshold input boxes are not aligned to each other but appended to the end of the wording. They should be aligned as per other similar examples in the Cinnamon Control Centre.
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settings: workspaces - OSD duration, OSD horizontal position and OSD vertical position are not aligned.
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settings: Under Auto-hide panel, the input boxes for “show delay” and “hide delay” are not aligned. Many other such input boxes and drop down menu boxes are aligned with each other and not with the end of the text.
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applets: when I click on the window list to minimize and maximize sometimes the windows don’t respond and so I have to maximize another window so that I can mainimize or maximize the previous one!!
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applets: On/Off switch for networking applet is visually glitchy
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spices: removing extensions, themes, desklets, applets is only possible using right click (maybe it would be better to have button for that in future relases)
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spices: If I select the radio box to choose an applet and then I’ll click the button to install it, the applet is installed but it’s not active: maybe a new user expects to have it immediately in the panel after the download… in fact forcing the user to come back in the list of the installed applet to enable the just downloaded applet is not user friendly, in my opinion.
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nemo: if I press ALT+F2 and then enter “nemo ftp://ftp.mydomain.xyz” to access to my personal ftp server trough nemo, I’ll get a request of username and password: it’s OK. The problem is that if I select the option to remember forever the username and password, it will not have effect: if I reboot Linux Mint, the next time I’ll try to access my ftp trough nemo I’ll get the request of username e password. So… nemo doesn’t remember my credentials… it’s frustrating.
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nemo: Entering the folder of long name , the path disappeared screen capture 1) it shows a folder of longname https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54450962/%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%B0%EC%83%B7%2C%202013-11-18%2002%3A18%3A19.png screen capture 2) entering the long name folder , meeting disappeared folder path of long name folder https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54450962/%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%B0%EC%83%B7%2C%202013-11-18%2002%3A18%3A34.png screen capture 3) But Actually It was still dsiplayed at max window https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54450962/%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%B0%EC%83%B7%2C%202013-11-18%2002%3A19%3A13.png
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cinnamon: menu doesn't listen to menu changes outside /usr/share/applications? install shotwell for instance (uses /usr/share/menu)
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changing Wallpaper sometimes freezes cinnamon
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Keyboard settings allow adding duplicate key combination for Cinnamon “Toggle Scale” and “Toggle Expo” (found these, didn’t go through all actions, most of them ok)
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nemo: Create a thumbnailer in usr/share/thumbnailers for MimeType inode/directory – when you try to run Nemo, it crashes with the error: (nemo:9078): CinnamonDesktop-WARNING **: Error reading from file:///home/simon/Desktop: Error reading from file descriptor: Is a directory Installing cover-thumbnailer is an easy way to reproduce it.
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nemo-preview (not installed by default), doesn’t work: http://pastebin.com/Uaci0mzC
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consider using bernard's theme
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show frequency in displays
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screenshot filenames aren't handy (Screenshot from 2014-02-17 14:46:32.png)
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Add common tiling options to window list context menu - Show Windows Side by Side, Cascade, Show windows stacked
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cinnamon-bluetooth: bring compatibility to GNOME 3.10
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cinnamon-settings-users: add support for nopasswdlogin
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expo: set overview mode to true by default
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expo: lag on dnd
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network applet https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/panels/network?id=63756458b2de0d730763cc2acbd510659e4d00a5
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cinnamon-screensaver dialog is all shrunk in hi-dpi
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Can the upstream fix maybe be included in Mint somehow? Commit at upstream Gnome is https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=c798c40c5dce3bc6d9b615621cefe59660b5a504.
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right-click Run/Open with blah in nemo, on executable files
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applets: Even after setting org.cinnamon.desktop.lockdown.disable-lock-screen to true, the lock button still appears on cinnamon menu applet…
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cinnamon: Onscreen keyboard activates when clicking the menu on the panel because text entry is focused... if onboard is used, entry should not focus when showing the menu
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cinnamon panel icon size sometimes show huge icons unless panel-scale-text-icons is set to true..
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cinnamon-settings: in French http://imagebin.org/277997
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Creating a user without password (stupid but nothing prevents it): impossible for that user to set one himself in Account Details.
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In the “Users and Groups”, when on “Groups” tab, it could be great to have a way to see the members of a selected group and add new members to the group as well. Currently, we can only edit the group name…
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Feature request: if a create a luncher on my desktop, I can select an icon for it (with preview)… instead, if a modify a launcher in the menu with the “menu editor”, I can select a different icon but without preview. Can you please add the preview feature?
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if a launch from a bash script nemo to open an ftp server more than one time, with a command such as “nemo ftp://ftp.xxx.xyz“, I can get a duplicate icon on my desktop, see screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/573922/Schermata%20del%202013-11-21%2012%3A25%3A31.png
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1. Open nemo (unminimised) 2. Copy some files so that the transfer window is present 3. Open another program (unminimised) and in front of nemo such as firefox 4. If the transfer window is open (maximised) in front of the other program (firefox for example) and you click to minimise the transfer window, nemo will automatically pop up in front of the other program. Not a major bug but annoying from a window management point of view.
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icons pixelated in alt-tab or panel after a suspend-resume
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llvmpiped session after a suspend-resume
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In gThumb, select a picture, right-click on it, select “Set as Desktop Background”, once applied, click the “Preferences” button on the green banner that just appeared at the bottom of the gThumb window and you’ll get the error message “Failed to execute child process “gnome-control-center” (No such file or directory)”
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cinnamon: Having links of files/folders on desktop from another hardrive at startup, then mounting the drive will usually crash then restart Cinnamon
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Cinnamon menu: When creating a new menu item the icon does not appear. It is ok in the menu editor.
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l10n: In System Settings\Windows the options (Toggle Shade etc.) for the first four entries are not translated.
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l10n: In System Settings\Fonts “None”, “Greyscale”, “Slight”, “Medium” and “Full” are not translated to Danish though Danish is 100% translated.
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ibus support
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http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-settings-daemon.git/plain/keyboard.patch
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http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-control-center.git/plain/region.patch
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http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon.git/plain/keyboard_applet.patch
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http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-control-center.git/tree/region_cleanup.patch
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https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-control-center/pull/51
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look and feel
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bumpmaps
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startup animation
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menu
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search providers
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MATE
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hard to resize window or to grab border
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some of the MATE applications don’t have a mint-x icon. engrampa, eye of mate, atril. They could use the GNOME icons.
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mate-terminal still has a menu bar and is not transparent
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When panel is at the top, notifications show on top of it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54450962/%ED%99%94%EB%A9%B4-5.png
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Would be nice if the mouse preference panel in Mate included a “natural scrolling” option
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Add sound effects like in Cinnamon
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The MATE user admin program (mate-users-admin), when setting a user’s type to “Administrative”, does not add the user to the “sudo” group. The workaround is to explicitly add the user to the sudo group
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‘mate-screensaver’ still as flaky as it was in lm15 MATE 64-bit. Set to ‘Lock screen when screensaver is active’ sometimes upon resume after suspend I get a prompt for my password, other times NOT.
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MPRIS support
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marco: Java apps are almost unusable when maximized. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=112470&p=709183 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918055 (won't fix in MATE, will try to convince the team or patch Marco in Mint 17)
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mate-system-monitor under resourses doesn’t look great with the default GTK theme (need to give the notebook at widget class name or style name so we can make it flat in Mint-X, alternatively, we could try and make the cairo elements transparent)
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caja: If you set a black wallpaper, the text below desktop icons becomes unvisible after reboot or logout and login.
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caja: dng and raw images thumbnails in caja
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switch to default notification theme
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LMDE
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Review live-installer from Tanglu (https://gitorious.org/tanglu/tanglu-live-installer) and Manjaro (http://git.manjaro.org/core/live-installer)
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Review Cinnarch installer (https://github.com/Antergos/Cnchi) and Manjaro fork (https://github.com/manjaro/thus)
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Triple mint-fortune issue with bash.bashrc
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Systemd runtime dir with gksu/pkexec
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XFS won't boot because of missing fsck.xfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322164
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check fsck presence for ALL other FS'es
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Post 17
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cinnamon: consider using "XDG_MENU_PREFIX=cinnamon- alacarte" instead of cme - coordinate with upstream to get cme improvements into alacarte
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cinnamon: port cinnamon-menu-editor fixes to alacarte upstream
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cinnamon: switch to Cinnamon XDG name
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uxa: switch to UXA apps in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce editions
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revive Giver project?
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integrate user guide in yelp help content
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