I want to talk to the Fedora Cinnamon Team or Fedora Cinnamon maintainers

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Hello,

First, it’s Dan from fedoraforum who send me here.

Next, I want to talk to the Fedora Cinnamon Team or Fedora Cinnamon maintainers. I want to help this team. Here’s why :

Well, as you know there is no “uninstall” option in the Fedora Cinnamon menu as we can see in Linux Mint Cinnamon. This one is interesting because it allows users to uninstall an application via the Cinnamon menu. Unfortunately, this depends on the cinnamon-remove-application file which is not present under Fedora Cinnamon (it is removed) but is present under Linux Mint.

In this case, I’ve managed to create an “uninstall” option in the Fedora Cinnamon menu that’s more or less identical to the one in Linux Mint, using the cinnamon-remove-application file. I based it on the original Linux Mint file (cinnamon-remove-application) and adapted it for Fedora Cinnamon. So now, with my modified script, I can uninstall applications from the Fedora Cinnamon menu (just like in Linux Mint). I’d like this script to be integrated into future versions of Fedora Cinnamon, if possible. I can send you the files (Python script, .pot file, and a pre-translated .po file (fr)). The script allows users to uninstall, via the Cinnamon menu: a RPM software (package) with its dependencies, a Flatpak software (package) and its runtimes, a menu item not associated with a package, avoid uninstalling an item associated with a Cinnamon system file.

Finally, I would like to contribute to the Fedora Cinnamon project. Would you be interested in my help ? Will my project be integrated in the Fedora Cinnamon Spin ?

I’m waiting your reply, thanks.

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You can find contact information of cinnamon maintainers here: cinnamon - Fedora Packages

Contributions here: GitHub - linuxmint/cinnamon: A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.

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Welcome to Fedora @alan90000

Unfortunately there is no specific Cinnamon Team for Fedora Linux it selves. (we also believe on upstream first). We do have enthusiasts which use and like Cinnamon and do take it as it is from the mint (upstream) team. However Linuxmint is Ubuntu/Debian based and has not always the same file and folder structure. This way such tools are excluded do not cause troubles on rpm based systems.

However, as first step you can publish a link to the source code from Linux mint and also to your new version in case you made a fork (copy of it). I nice free option is codeberg.org.

This way we can guide you how to achieve an integration for Fedora Linux.

As fist you could check out the Documentation:

As alternative you could make a package and offer it for installation on the copr infrastructure.
There you not have all this “strong restriction”, as with being included in the official Fedora Repositories.

Copr Infrastructure