14 DAY TRIAL // We reported the other day on the official availability of the Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment, which you can now install on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu 16.10 machines, and it looks like the second point release is already out.
That's right, we're talking about Cinnamon 3.2.2, which arrived a few hours ago with lots of improvements and bug fixes, such as the ability to show a separator on applets' context menus and a new mechanism for highlighting applets that have open menus, as well as better keyboard navigation for the Menu applet with some specific keys.
The second maintenance update to Cinnamon 3.2 also restores the ability to theme the Menu applet's menu independently of other menus, improves the Sound applet by removing the percentage label for the slider option, as well as an old code for timeLabel, and fixes thumbnail generation on LMDE2 (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).
Workspace Switcher improvements, bug fixes
The Workspace Switcher component received some improvements as well in today's Cinnamon 3.2.2 point release, especially for theming, but also for the size of the buttons, which did not get a proper height/width while using the new vertical panels mode when the auto-scale font setting was disabled.
Other than the above, Cinnamon 3.2.2 adds support for disabling menu animations when turning off window effects, adds support for "title" key to the cinnamon-json-makepot component, makes AX_ macros optional (important if you compile Cinnamon from sources), and fixes a hang issue with the Xlet settings.
Last but not least, Cinnamon 3.2.2 makes sure that the default icon size of 16px is respected when no "icon-size" value is set in the indicator icon theme class. The GIO (Gnome Input/Output) library is now used for establishing file permissions, and translation support has been added to Xlet settings windows. As usual, check the attached changelog for more details.