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Suggestion to add an “Uninstall” option to the Cinnamon menu for Fedora Cinnamon.
Hello,
I’ve been trying to contact the Fedora Cinnamon team or one of its maintainers, but without success. I have a script that adds an “Uninstall” option to the Cinnamon menu in Fedora Cinnamon. This option is not available by default. This script has been recreated and is based on the original Linux Mint file, and it works the same way as in Linux Mint with one or two improvements. I would like to propose it for inclusion in current and future versions of Fedora Cinnamon. If you are interested, please contact me through this thread. We can discuss it.
Do I understand you correctly when I say you want a menu item to install the whole OS? And then, after that has happened, what do you plan to do then? You will end up with a dead computer, at least when this was the only OS which was installed.
When you want to install something else then just boot into the USB (or dvd) or whatever source you have and install another OS. There is no need to uninstall an OS at all.
But I probably don’t understand your plea to get an uninstall button. So please explain.
Thanks.
I read it as "it adds an uninstall option to each application in the “start menu”. Not really sure if this is the case as I’m not entirely sure how that’s any better than uninstalling via dnf. Presumably, the script calls dnf uninstall "this package" somehow.
Where did you read that?
I don’t know Cinnamon, never used it, but isn’t there in one of the menus a software package item to (un)install a package? It has to be, every DE has that so why not Cinnamon. A search on the internet showed me the program is called APT Package Manager, but that is for Debian/Ubuntu based distro’s. Fedora will have added their own package manager. It could be DNF_Dragora if you want a menu driven program, or you can use the terminal and use dnf.
as Steve Flynn pointed out, this adds an option uninstalling an application from the Cinnamon Start Menu is a common feature. For those familiar with Cinnamon and Linux Mint, this option is present in the menu to facilitate uninstalling applications (deb, flatpak, or entries not associated with a package) directly from the menu, avoiding the need to use the package manager, software manager, or command line. This is much more convenient and simpler (Especially for beginners on Linux). This one is not available by default in Fedora Cinnamon because it is specific to Linux Mint. However, based on the original script, I was able to recreate it to work in Fedora Cinnamon (using Fedora commands like dnf and flatpak uninstall, and adding visual elements).
