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Monthly News – April 2025
Quoting: Monthly News – April 2025 – The Linux Mint Blog —
We’re adding a little bit of blue in our theme.
This is common practice in UI design. It’s done on mobile, desktop and all over the web. Grey is rarely completely grey, it usually has a little bit more blue in it than red and green.
Take your color picker and check the grey on GitHub. It’s not #f8f8f8, it’s #f6f8fa. Firefox does that well, Google docs, Trello etc..
The reason this is done is to make grey slightly more metallic looking and appear more modern. Pure grey is neutral, it can be perceived as cold or warm based on its surroundings. By bumping the blue (or in the case of github both the green and the blue) we force it to look cold.
OMG Ubuntu:
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Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme - OMG! Ubuntu
Linux Mint 22.2 (due to be released in late July or early August) has been officially named ‘Zara’, so continuing distro lead Clem’s codename convention of choosing female names in (somewhat) alphabetical order for each new version.
I only say somewhat since Linux Mint 22.1 release was dubbed ‘Xia‘, while Linux Mint 22.2 jumps straight to ‘Zara’.
Even with my lackadaisical attention to letter ordering, I know a ‘Y’ comes between ‘X’ and ‘Z’. Perhaps Clem had a dodgy date in the past with a Yara, Yasmin, Yvette, Yvonne or Yelena…
Anyway, the codename of the next version is not what most Linux Mint fans will care about.
No, top of the “ooh” list will be the changes made to its default theme.
Linuxiac & How-To Geek:
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Linux Mint's Mint-Y Theme Gets a Modern Touch
Linux Mint has released its regular monthly newsletter; this time, we have some exciting updates to share. First, the team confirmed the labels for its next point release and upcoming Debian-based edition. Linux Mint 22.2 will answer to “Zara,” while LMDE 7 (the Mint variant built directly on Debian rather than Ubuntu) has been dubbed “Gigi.”
Linux Mint 22.2 is expected to be released in the next few months and, like earlier 22.x versions, it will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. As for LMDE 7, it’s likely to show up a few months after the release of Debian 13 “Trixie,” which is currently expected around July—so realistically, we probably won’t see LMDE 7 before October.
Linux Mint Is Embracing the GTK4 Future, on Its Own Terms
Linux Mint has forked and modified many GNOME and GTK applications to keep them working with the Linux distro’s custom theme support. The team is now trying a new approach that would allow more current apps to work, without extensive modification or fully killing theme support.
Linux Mint has pushed back against many modern trends in the desktop Linux ecosystem, like the rise of Snap packages and the decline of user-configurable themes. The primary Cinnamon desktop environment also has a more traditional taskbar, applications menu, and applet bar than you get in GNOME Shell. However, all those modifications make it harder to integrate newer versions of system components and applications.