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Linux mint desklets
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linux mint desklets

  • info.json contains information about the spice.
  • Else the spice won't be installable through System Settings.
  • The UUID/files/ directory has to be "empty", which means that it should contain ONLY the UUID directory.
  • when users download the ZIP from the Cinnamon Spices website).

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    The presence of this UUID directory, inside of files/ isn't actually needed by Cinnamon (as Cinnamon creates it if it's missing), but it is needed to guarantee a proper manual installation (i.e. This guarantees files aren't extracted directly onto the file system, but placed in the proper UUID directory. This is the content which is interpreted by Cinnamon itself.Īs you can see, the content of the spice isn't placed inside UUID/files/ directly, but inside UUID/files/UUID/ instead. UUID/files/ represents the content of the ZIP archive which users can download from or which is sent to Cinnamon when installing the spice from System Settings.UUID/ is the root level directory, it includes files which are used by the website and on github.File structureĪ spice can contain many files, but it should have the following file structure: The github username of the author is specified in the spice's info.json file. That name is their UUID and it is unique. Definitions UUIDĮach spice is given a name which uniquely identifies them.

    LINUX MINT DESKLETS INSTALL

    Users can install spices from, or directly from within Cinnamon -> System Settings. This repository hosts all the desklets available for the Cinnamon desktop environment.














    Linux mint desklets