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The Desktop Environment thread.

Swarfendor437

Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:05:05 am

OK. Recently I installed Cinnamon DE and the beauty of this DE is that it's Store (=Softwares in Zorin) uses Snap packages already (see https://snapcraft.io/). Now whilst I have argued a long time for Zorin to release a version with Cinnamon DE since Zorin 9 was due to its great configurability and the fact that (for Desktops) both Window keys (if present) can launch the Menu just like that other OS. Now the only problem with Cinnamon interface is that it does not 'talk to' Orca, the Gnome screen reader so I suspect that the next major release will be better than Cinnamon whilst based on it but with full accessibility with Orca integration for users with no sight. Zorin made great strides in this area with changing the panel/menu design from all previous iterations as only YAMA (Yet Another Menu Application) would work fully with Orca.