Linux Mint 21.2 will improve the presentation of notifications and information messages

yes a month ago they overtook us which Linux Mint 21.2 will improve its color palette in icons and themes, this May have reported that these small improvements will reach more corners of the interface. Clem Lefebvre, leader of the Linux Mint project, has done it on his blog, in the section of his monthly newsletter. They had been thinking about changing some things for a long time, and they have decided to do it in the next 21.2.

As everyone recommends learning English if you're doing something that requires you to use a programming language or look for documentation on the net, I'm taking some bad habits if most of the people I talk to are Spanish-speaking, and For this reason I had to search the net for how to translate "tooltip". Being a bit lazy today, I decided to ask ChatGPT, and it told me that the translation would be “tooltip” or just popup. Basically they are those messages that appear with information when we leave the cursor over, and Linux Mint 21.2 it will improve those tooltips.

Linux Mint 21.2 is coming this summer

The redesign has been in the works for a while, and the main Reason for making the change is lack of consistency, something that makes it look different if you are on GTK2, GTK3 or Cinnamon. Also, they showed a gray border that didn't look clean. Clem's team looked at their own work, as well as other Linux topics and what's trending on the web, to come to the conclusion that something like the following image is best:

And the notifications will look like this:

In general, search improve design and presentation, something that they already started in the previous release by removing the default icons from the desktop.

In this May bulletin (corresponding to April) they have talked about the secureboot to say that an update in Ubuntu broke compatibility between Linux Mint and "secure boot". It is likely that it cannot be installed in some scenarios, for which they recommend entering the BIOS and disabling it.

Available in summer…

…or winter in the southern hemisphere. linux mint coming mid 2023, and also an EDGE ISO with Linux 5.19 and LMDE 6, based on Debian 12 that will arrive in about a month. No exact date has been given on either of these releases.