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| 2024-09-30 |
Mint updates its look and package management tools |
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The Linux Mint team has published their monthly newsletter for September. The newsletter covers two main points of interest. The first is a reworking of several Cinnamon elements, such as the Force Quit pop-up, volume control, and workspace switcher. These have been redesigned to look better, with a sleeker design and better contrast. The second set of changes involve upgrades to the package management tools, reducing complexity and dependencies on older utilities. "This allowed us to completely refactor the code in the Update Manager and greatly simplify its architecture. It worked well but it had been written decades ago and some of the techniques and components it relied on weren’t future-proof. Its multithreading code was deprecated and hard to maintain. It depended on Synaptic and technology related to Gtk.Plug/Socket which couldn’t work in Wayland. It also handled multi-processing calls and serialization itself. All of this was simplified. In the Software Sources tool, the downgrading of foreign packages was performed via a VTE (an embedded terminal). This is now handled by Aptkit directly, with a nice progress dialog." |
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