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Cinnamon Spin

Summary

A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.

Owner

Name: Dan Book
Email: grinnz@gmail.com
Release notes owner: Sandra McCann

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.

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-* Release notes owner: <!--- To be assigned by docs team [[User:FASAccountName| Release notes owner name]] <email address> -->
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-* Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
+* Tracker bug: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225865 #1225865]
 == Detailed Description ==
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 == Scope ==
-* Proposal owners: Track existing Cinnamon desktop environment group
+* Proposal owners: Track existing Cinnamon desktop environment group, and test the Spin.
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-* Release engineering: Ensure spin has been tested and release with rest of spins <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES -->
+* Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has been tested, and release with rest of spins <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES -->
 <!-- Does this feature require coordination with release engineering (e.g. changes to installer image generation or update package delivery)?  Is a mass rebuid required?  If a rel-eng ticket exists, add a link here.
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 <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES -->
 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 ==
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 * [http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Cinnamon Desktop]
 * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cinnamon_Spin Spin Proposal]
+== Spins Page ==
+<!-- This information will be used on the spins.fedoraproject.org website.  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Spins.fpo for more info. -->
+=== 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 ===
+[[File:Fedora_23_Cinnamon_2015-07-17_03-46-05.png|600px]]
+<!-- A representative screenshot for the spin.  This will also go on the home tab. -->
+=== Download tab ===
+Default layout
+<!-- For the downloads tab, if you’d like custom text to describe the spin download, add it here. Otherwise the defaults from this mockup will be used: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/ce/Spin-details-download.png -->
+=== 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/
+<!-- What IRC channels or other live support options do users have for the spin (if any), what mailing lists / forums / non-live support options users have for the spin (if any), and what documentation would you like to highlight to new users?  This will go on the support tab.  Here’s an example: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Spin-details-support.png  -->
+=== Custom branding ===
+None available.
+<!-- Some custom branding for each spin, so the different spins pages are distinguishable from one another.  You can see
+in this KDE spin mockup at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Spins.fpo#Spins_Details:_Home_Page
+The bar above the tabs that has the KDE logo.  Please let us know what kind of graphic you’d like for your spin. -->
 == Release Notes ==
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-[[Category:ChangeReadyForWrangler]]
+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 [http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Cinnamon official website] for more information on Cinnamon, and go to [http://spins.fedoraproject.org http://spins.fedoraproject.org] to download the Spin.
+[[Category:ChangeAcceptedF23]]
 <!-- When your change proposal page is completed and ready for review and announcement -->
 <!-- remove Category:ChangePageIncomplete and change it to Category:ChangeReadyForWrangler -->

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