Clement Lefebvre is proud to announce the unique availability of the Cinnamon Project, a GNOME 3 desktop environment fork which offers a traditional layout, its easy to use, powerful, flexible, and provides advanced features. If you don't like Ubuntu's Unity and/or the controversial GNOME 3 desktop environment, we are introducing today, January 3rd, the jaw-dropping and beautiful Cinnamon desktop environment, forged by the creator of the popular Linux Mint operating system, Clement Lefebvre.

Highlights of Cinnamon

• Based on GNOME 3 and Mutter, and forked from GNOME Shell;
• Uses one single, auto-hideable bottom panel (will also be movable in the near future);
• Provides window list, systray icons, a "show desktop" button, and all MGSE's features;
• Provides a Main Menu that has the same layout as mintMenu, and offers options to add apps to favorites, to the panel or to the desktop;
• Provides custom panel launchers;
• Provides a sound applet that lets users control and launch your music, to switch the sound from your headphones to your speakers and vice-versa.

Example Screenshoot of Cinnamon on Linux [caption id="attachment_6515" align="aligncenter" width="514" caption="Courtesy: Softpedia.com"][/caption]

Step by Step Installing Cinnamon on Fedora 16

You can install Cinnamon on Fedora 16 easly with update your repository and add the cinnamon repository: [code] su curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo yum install cinnamon [/code]

After installing, logout and select cinnamon at GDM login. This is screenshoot Cinnamon on Fedora 16:

Referensi:

• http://news.softpedia.com/news/Introducing-Cinnamon-The-GNOME-3-Replacement-244107.shtml
• http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=274611
• http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61