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greyseal96

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] Cinnamon equivalent of xfce-goodies package group?

Hello all,

I've been using Arch with XFCE for a while now on another computer but, with my new laptop purchase, I thought that I'd try out a new DE just for the heck of it.  Cinnamon looked kind of fun so I installed it.  Coming from XFCE, I had kind of grown accustomed to the wealth of information on the wiki about using XFCE.  I realize that Cinnamon support is relatively new so that's probably why there's not as much information about it.  Is that more or less correct? 

Anyway, XFCE has a package group called xfce-goodies that installs a whole bunch of useful apps.  Is there an equivalent package group for Cinnamon?  I'm guessing that it would be one of the GNOME package groups, but I'm not sure how different/similar the two DEs are. 

I'd really appreciate any help or pointers that anyone could give.  Thanks!

Last edited by greyseal96 (2014-04-17 14:53:51)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon equivalent of xfce-goodies package group?

There's the [cinnamon] unofficial repo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … s#cinnamon

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon equivalent of xfce-goodies package group?

It really depends on what you're looking for. xfce4-goodies is mainly a bunch of panel plugins that the xfce maintainers didn't want to include in xfce core. Cinnamon applets and desklets can be installed from the applets and desklets sections in the cinnamon settings panel. If you're wondering what desktop applications to use, well you can use anything you like. gnome applications generally have the best integration cinnamon but I wouldn't bother installing the whole gnome or gnome-extra groups as that will give a whole load of stuff you don't need. Just install the applications themselves e.g. gnome-terminal, gedit, rhythmbox etc.

greyseal96

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon equivalent of xfce-goodies package group?

Thanks, karol and Chazza.  Between your two answers, I think that gives me a good idea of the direction in which I need to go.  I was just curious if there was something that I was missing, but it looks like it's just because there's not really a "goodies" type package or package group out there.  If anybody else has any other suggestions, feel free to post them, but I think that I know my direction now.  Thanks!