The rest are a varied collection, reflecting a variety of different needs and interests.

Still others are specialist menus, such as the Office Center, Graphics Center, and Script Menu applets and the Cinnamon Developer Tools desklet. However, a surprising number are variants - including some 16 menus, 7 Places menus, and 5 clocks. Some are standard desktops widgets, such as the system tray and task bar. All are installable on-the-fly with a few mouse-clicks, and toggled on or off from the Applets configuration window.Īs you might expect, some of these offerings are system and hardware monitors.

However, in the latest release, I count 27 applets pre-installed and another 169 available online, as well as 17 desklets, making for a healthy ecosystem of minor add-ons and utilities. Two releases ago, there were only a handful of applets and two or three desklets that amounted more to proofs of concept than anything of much use. Their lack is a major reason I am indifferent to GNOME and Unity, and conversely why I prefer KDE and - increasingly, Linux MInt's Cinnamon.Ĭinnamon's applets and desklets are a relatively new feature. For me, however, they are two of the most important features of a desktop environment because of the degree of customization they allow. Some users condemn panel applets and desktop widgets as clutter.

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