Cinnamon PPA with Extensions(updated Feb 16)

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Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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I managed to run the CPU temperature extension in Cinnamon. It displays the temperature of the processor. I hope it will work in Cinnamon 1.1.4 also
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Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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i also have bine useing the temp from the above place for a long time now works great
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Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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Randomly browsing the forums and came across this thread. Gave your weather extension and xrandr-indicator a try and they work great. Very cool :mrgreen:
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Now extensions are going to be called applets and have many changes on how they work.
clem wrote:Most extensions coming from Gnome Shell should not be extensions, but applets instead.

Here are a few advantages of applets vs extensions in Cinnamon:

- Easier to write (most of the things are already done for you)
- Consistent style across applets in the panel when it comes to margin, fonts etc..
- The user decides where the applet goes, not the developer of the applet
- Applets are confronted to the Cinnamon Applet API, which doesn't change much from release to release (and so applets don't depend on a particular version of cinnamon)
- Common right-click behavior across applets which the applet can extend
Clem already has 2 made if you want to see how they are put together. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-applets

Cinnamon 1.1.4 will be using Muffin instead of Mutter.
Muffin isn't compatible with the latest Gnome 3 libraries.
Don't plan on seeing others have Cinnamon 1.1.4 soon after it's released.
Muffin doesn't even compile on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Hi

Thanks for your latest infos.
1. Where is Clem writing?
2. What do you mean by this sentence: Don't plan on seeing others have Cinnamon 1.1.4 soon after it's released.. Should I understand that the 1.1.4. version of Cinnamon will be final? Or that it will not be easily used soon by other distros? If so, for what reason?
3. Mufin do not compile on Ubuntu 12.04 : for the moment, forever? It can be used as a binary? It cannot be used?

Thanks again
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roger64 wrote:Hi

Thanks for your latest infos.
1. Where is Clem writing?
2. What do you mean by this sentence: Don't plan on seeing others have Cinnamon 1.1.4 soon after it's released.. Should I understand that the 1.1.4. version of Cinnamon will be final? Or that it will not be easily used soon by other distros? If so, for what reason?
3. Mufin do not compile on Ubuntu 12.04 : for the moment, forever? It can be used as a binary? It cannot be used?

Thanks again
1. I email him about the Ubuntu PPA.
2. Arch, Gentoo and others have a new gnome 3 libraries that Muffin doesn't compile with. Muffin is using outdated libraries.
Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome Shell and will continue to have updates.
3. Muffin currently doesn't compile on Ubuntu 12.04. Linux Mint 13 is going to be based on Ubuntu 12.04 so it should get fixed.
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The cinnamon-applets github page doesn't seem to be there (I get a 404 error and it's not listed under linuxmint github pages).
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cwwgateway wrote:The cinnamon-applets github page doesn't seem to be there (I get a 404 error and it's not listed under linuxmint github pages).
Looks like they were integrated into Cinnamon.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/t ... on/applets
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merlwiz79

great work.. thnx
Andrew33

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Still can't right click on either bar; either top or bottom to do anything, especially to resize so I can see them better
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Wow I really appreciate your hard work in getting these extensions working with Cinnamon. I hope they continue to work as Cinnamon evolves, or are incorporated within Cinnamon itself. Thank you for your efforts. :D
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welp the new realice of cinnamon 1.2.0 breaks all the extentions (finally as this was expected)
now we need to turn the extentions in to apps if at all possable
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zenrox wrote:welp the new realice of cinnamon 1.2.0 breaks all the extentions (finally as this was expected)
now we need to turn the extentions in to apps if at all possable
Yup, breaks all the 3rd party themes as well but this was also expected. No big deal as Cinnamon is still basically alpha software and we knew this was going to happen. Plenty of time to work on it yet. :D
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Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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I got the weather extention to work :D :twisted: . add the following:
'"1.2" after "1.1.3" in the cinnamon version line of metadata.js of /usr/share/cinnamon/extensions/weather@cinnamon.org

line 5 will look like this:
"cinnamon-version": [ "1.1.3","1.2" ],

EDIT: Dont forget to turn it on in cinnamon settings -> extensions
EDIT2: I only had to modify the menu section of my personal theme to get it to work. :D
zenrox

Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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crzen wrote:I got the weather extention to work :D :twisted: . add the following:
'"1.2" after "1.1.3" in the cinnamon version line of metadata.js of /usr/share/cinnamon/extensions/weather@cinnamon.org

line 5 will look like this:
"cinnamon-version": [ "1.1.3","1.2" ],

EDIT: Dont forget to turn it on in cinnamon settings -> extensions
EDIT2: I only had to modify the menu section of my personal theme to get it to work. :D
i got the places and the tempture extention to work with this workaround
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I don't have time now but will update the ppa later today.
I haven't even tested it yet so it'll take some time to get everything in the ppa.
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http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost. ... tcount=187
this has updated weather and dock extentions
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I have updated the weather extension for 1.2.0.
I have also updated gnome-tweak-tool to allow you to change the windows theme.
You have to restart cinnamon after you change the theme.
Also it allows you to change the which windows actions buttons are allow to show.
If youi are on Linux Mint it won't work !00% even if you force install it.

I'm trying to get the other extensions to work but I'm stuck on the dock.
Most of the time the dock doesn't detect that mouse is still focusing on it and hides.
This makes it hard to use with auto hide. :(
If you move fast enough and are lucky you might get something to launch.

My patched gnome-tweak-tool(Advacned Settings) in Linux Mint:
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merlwiz79 wrote:I have updated the weather extension for 1.2.0.
Just upgraded it, I have temperature and weather condition listed on the panel, but if I click on the icon the corresponding (bubble) window is empty.
merlwiz79 wrote:I have also updated gnome-tweak-tool to allow you to change the windows theme.
You have to restart cinnamon after you change the theme.
Also it allows you to change the which windows actions buttons are allow to show.
If youi are on Linux Mint it won't work !00% even if you force install it.
That's not yet in the repository, right? Perhaps you should rename it, so that people switching between GS and Cinnamon can have the original GS version?
merlwiz79 wrote:I'm trying to get the other extensions to work but I'm stuck on the dock.
Most of the time the dock doesn't detect that mouse is still focusing on it and hides.
This makes it hard to use with auto hide. :(
If you move fast enough and are lucky you might get something to launch.
Yep, I had to give up on dock because of that, it stays hidden almost every time the mouse cursor went that way...

Thanks for the update :)

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Re: Cinnamon PPA with Extensions

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I tried to install the cinnamon-extensions files but ran into all kinds of errors and missing dependencies problems. For now I am just going to leave Cinnamon alone until it is in a more stable state and being able to add features is easier. For now I prefer and will use GNOME Classic.
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