Spices Update

Summary

Cinnamon Spices are Applets, Desklets, Extensions, Themes and nemo Actions.

You usually check updates for the Spices using Cinnamon Settings. But, like me, you do it too seldom.

The Spices Update applet, highly configurable, plays these roles:

Status

Available from Cinnamon 2.8.

Fully supported by the author, under continuing development and in continuous use on several machines, running with Linux Mint, Fedora, Archlinux or Debian 10 (and many others).

From version v3.0.0 ~ 20190808:

Requirements

The Spices Update requires the notify-send tool and the symbola TrueType font.

This applet helps you to install these dependencies, if needed.

To install them manually:

Settings

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There are five tabs in settings.

The first, General, allows you to:

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For the content of the other tabs (Applets, Desklets, etc), please look at the screenshot bellow and note that the list of installed Spices is automatically filled at startup; a Refresh button allows you to refill it and refresh data about updates.

Set to FALSE (or uncheck the first box of) all the Spices you do not want to check updates. There are two reasons to do this:

From Cinnamon 3.8, you can request to renew the download of the latest version of a Spice checking both boxes (or setting both switches to TRUE) then clicking the Refresh button.

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Menu

In the menu of this applet:

Icon

The color of the icon changes when at least one of your Spices needs an update.

From Cinnamon 3.8, the icon rotates and its color darkens while data are being refreshed.

A Middle-Click on applet icon:

Its tooltip (the message displayed hovering over the icon) contains the list of Spices to update, if any.

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Notifications

There are two types of notifications: Minimal or With buttons. Each of them may or may not contain details: the reason for an update or the description of a new spice.

Minimal notifications

Here with the reason for update:

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Notifications with buttons

Two buttons: firstly a button to open the System Settings page to download updates; secondly a button to refresh notifications.

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Translations

Any translation is welcome. Thank you for contributing to translate the applet's messages into new languages, or to improve or supplement existing translations.

Available translations

List of available translations.

Many thanks to the translators!

How to offer a translation

  1. Create an account on Github.
  2. Fork the cinnamon-spices-applets repository.
  3. In your fork, create a branch (named like SpicesUpdate-YOUR_LANGUAGE_CODE) from the master one.
  4. On your computer, install git and poedit.
  5. Clone your branch on your computer:

    git clone -b SpicesUpdate-YOUR_LANGUAGE_CODE --single-branch https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_ACCOUNT/cinnamon-spices-applets.git SpicesUpdate-YOUR_LANGUAGE_CODE 6. Open the SpicesUpdate@claudiux.pot file (which is in the po directory) with poedit and create your translation. You obtain a YOUR_LANGUAGE_CODE.po file. 7. On Github, upload this YOUR_LANGUAGE_CODE.po file at the right place into your branch then go to the root of your branch and make a Pull Request.

Installation

Automatic Installation

Use the Applets menu in Cinnamon Settings, or Add Applets to Panel in the context menu (right-click) of your desktop panel. Then go on the Download tab to install this Spices Update applet.

Manual Installation:

A Star to thank the author

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Many Thanks.