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Artwork: Meliae Icon Pack, Dust mod Gband GTK, -kol - It was a beautiful day Wallpaper, MintCast RSS… : http://www.moonforce.de/2009/01/linux-mint-7-gloria-artwork-re-imagined/

mintInstall: the category tree is kind of misaligned. It’s not a big deal of course, but looks kinda unpleasant. It would be nice to have category names at the same level aligned to the left and not preceded by a random number of white spaces (or whatever it is that makes them appear a little further to the right) for no obvious reason.

Could an option be added to graphical installer to create a permanent or temporary linux swap partition? I'm speaking about the screen before the desktop loads, or a screen between it and the boot options. The first time I installed Linux Mint I already had another distro installed so I had no problems. When I wiped my drive and reinstalled from there (messed it up when trying to do something I shouldn't have) it failed to install, and sometimes to load decently. I didn't know what was different until I booted SliTaz Linux and saw the type of partitions I could create. I made a swap the size of 200 MB's and everything went smoothely. I do believe that this could be the solution for installing on low memory systems that are capable of running Mint, but not installing it.

Is there a chance to get Go-Oo (http://go-oo.org), at least in the repos, instead of the OOo ubuntu edition?. Since it has some features that aren’t in the default install, and it has better performance. Also, the opengl transitions in Presentation would be a nice add.

Lionel Dricot, from Planet Ubuntu, in his blog has some good ideas for usability for the beginner users. http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?201-the-aristocratic-desktop-part-2-home-is-desktop ; Maybe some of them can be included by default in the next releases?.

I had to remove the mint artwork because the metapackages cause conflicts with the ubuntu ones. Since i prefer Human instead mint’s default (no offense), i don’t have anymore the nice wallpapers and the gfxboot splash. Is there a way to make a dummy package, or something, that fixes that?

There are some applets that might be handy, for example the quick-lounge-applet. It’s like the quicklaunch for windows (just to make a parallelism, i don’t want to copy it), and it provides a better organization of the shortcuts, instead of dragging them in the bar.

I’ve noticed that the compiz plugins are a bit screwed, in what respects the config. In Elyssa i had all the animations and the windows previews, and the alt+tab worked flawless. Now, i’ve had to configure the animations, make the alt+tab working and activate and configurate the windows preview.

Is there a way to get all the fonts installed by default, i mean the ttf-*, except the thai, syriac and those…; There are some nice ones that would make a better experience for the user. Same with the sub-pixel smoothing. In ubuntu’s brainstorm there are a lot of ideas where the ppl says that one of the first things that they do is run the sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config (then choose autohinter, then always and finally no), then use the slight autohint in gnome preferences (under the sub-pixel smoothing properties); Maybe that can be turned on by default too.

the nimbus theme isn’t include in the Felicia repos anymore and the new songbird either :S.

mintMenu

In places and system --> slot mechanism
hotkeys and keyboard navigation
option to empty trashcan
be able to use a button instead of the text and logo and have that in the preferences
edit any item in the menu
edit/add categories

mintAssistant

mintDesktop

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