Linux Mint's Cinnamon 6.0 Brings Initial -- Still Experimental -- Wayland Session

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Mint's Cinnamon 6.0 Brings Initial -- Still Experimental -- Wayland Session

The Linux Mint crew led by Clement Lefebvre released Cinnamon 6.0 today as the latest version of their customized desktop stack...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Cinnamon-6.0

[NeoMorpheus]

As noted recently, Linux Mint has begun working on Wayland support for Cinnamon but they don't anticipate it being entirely ready until 2026.

By that time, we will be observing the Wayland replacement first beta releases.

[Danny3]

Does it have anything in common with implementations of Gnome, KDE Plasma, Sway?
If it's not ready until 2026, when we can expect also cool stuff like color management and HDR support?

[Toggleton]

Does it have anything in common with implementations of Gnome, KDE Plasma, Sway?
If it's not ready until 2026, when we can expect also cool stuff like color management and HDR support?

"The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2 with underlying technology forked from Gnome Shell."
And i don't find with the github search any reference to KDE and Wlroots. So likely not

[Malsabku]

Does it have anything in common with implementations of Gnome, KDE Plasma, Sway?
If it's not ready until 2026, when we can expect also cool stuff like color management and HDR support?

The window manager of Cinnamon, which is called muffin, is currently based on GNOME mutter 3.36.9, from Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS, so it has fractional scaling integrated.

When the next rebase will happen is still open, but it will be also in future based on mutter.

[Malsabku]

Does it have anything in common with implementations of Gnome, KDE Plasma, Sway?
If it's not ready until 2026, when we can expect also cool stuff like color management and HDR support?

GNOME's mutter still doesn't have support for HDR, so I doubt it'll be in Cinnamon in 2026. We can hope that Gnome will make it to 2026..

[SerialCool]

Isn't the Cinnamon development more complex? Because Cinnamon depends on GTK3/GNOME and both continue to move away from each other.

[Fanboy80]

Hmm, Pulseaudio is still a hard dependency

[Danny3]

Hmm, Pulseaudio is still a hard dependency

Wouldn't it be way better if from now on desktop environments and other software just depend on Pipewire & WirePlumber?

[spicfoo]

Wouldn't it be way better if from now on desktop environments and other software just depend on Pipewire & WirePlumber?

Cinnamon doesn't have many developers. It's mostly leaning on GNOME to do some heavy lifting and eventually they rebase their forks and catch up. They will do that at some point for Pipewire too.