Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress
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: Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it
  • CafeFrog@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Cinnamon was written from scratch to reflect a more traditional desktop metaphor. It was not created from existing GNOME code.

    Many parts of Cinnamon were forked from Gnome 3 and Gnome 2 (Mate).

    • XPlayer was forked from Gnome Videos (Totem)
    • Xviewer was forked from Eye of Gnome
    • Xreader was forked from Atril from MATE (itself a fork of Envince from Gnome 2)
    • Xed is a fork of Pluma (itself a fork of Gedit 2)
    • Cinnamon’s compositor, Muffin, was forked from Gnome 3’s Mutter compositor

    Many other parts of Cinnamon are made from scratch, but it is not wrong the say it’s also a Gnome 3 fork in many ways.