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Thanks for the great release clem

Thanks to everyone for the help testing these 4 ISOs. We're going for a stable release.

We're missing md5 integration, mint4win only works in 64-bit ISOs, bluetooth is problematic and compiz doesn't work out of the box, but overall the quality is really good, I'm really happy with it.

We'll be working on OEM ISOs separately, it looks like we need to add support for it in MDM. For now, let's enjoy this release. Thanks to everyone involved ;)

All applications succeeded for me. There must be a special case, maybe with Compiz, where the MDM apps won't work? Or maybe you weren't running MDM at the time? It's been working fine consistently for me here.

#048: All applications:  And I forgot, of course Bluetooth didn't open.  

#048: All applications: Some items did not work (I had Compiz running)

1. Login window:  MDM is not running
2. New Login: MDM is not running
3. Windows: Cannot start preferences application for your windows manager.  Compiz has not registered a configuration tool.

The thing I thougt was a twinkle is when I turn the cube and the window on the actual side get focus.  It has to do with when the window changes from no focus to focus.  Nothing to worry about.  :)

I've got bad news... OEM installations aren't functional. We'll need to postpone their avalability to either adapt MDM to oem-config or use a different DM on these particular ISOs.

As for non-codecs ISO, they'll come as DVD for all 4 ISOs (MATE/Cinnamon, 32/64 bit) and won't require QA.

I also wrote a tutorial for people on how to respin Mint, this will be useful to anyone trying to make a Mint ISO fit on a 700MB CD (though they'll have to remove quite a lot of apps to get this done).

Looking at the remaining tests, I'm almost happy to approve the ISOs for the stable release. Mint4win worked in the RC and the --force-wubi flag was fixed and isn't needed anymore. Can someone confirm a working mint4win install?

I'm not sure Sven, I had to leave compiz out of the scope if we wanted to properly integrate MATE and Cinnamon. I'm hoping the community will come up with tutorials and resources on how to integrate it well with MATE and we'll then be able to use that to give people a better out of the box MATE/Compiz experience in Mint 14. The MATE team also will take an interest in improving this.

Compiz twinkle when turning desktops:

In Mint 10 you must have 4 workspaces choosen in the Workspace-selector  AND 4 virtual desktops in Compiz  Common alternatives, Size to get it work.

In LM 13 MATE you must only have ONE workspace choosen in the Workspace selector and the four desktops only comes from Compiz  Common alternatives, Size.

Could the "twinkle"  be related to that difference in the mecanisms???

It's possible Compiz takes over the keyboard shortcuts.

When I turn the Compiz Cube, the screen makes a "twinkle" or flash or what you might call it in English.

I compare behaviour with LM 10 Main. which runs perfect, without any misbehaviours.

I am sorry to say  Alt+F2 don't  work any longer.  I don't  know why it stopped.  (I have been working a little about activating Compiz and Compiz settings)  Even Compiz has changed it's behaviour for the latest sessions, it seems stiff and a bit lazy now compared to previous sessions....  CPU usage looks very low.  (top gives about 97% idle)

About Glipper.  The glipper menu opends up when clicking on the icon - until I copy something, then the glipper menu is gone for the session.   (when there is someting in the copy-buffer I should guess)

Still I can not get any microphone sound in Skype.  Skype tells that I have PulseAudio running and that I should use it for sound settings.  I can not find any PulseAudio in the Menus.

The only visible microphone level setting is in maximum pos.  In LMDE and LM10 I can get the microphone working.

Packet installer (Synaptic) has no "search-field" any longer. 

Sorry i don't  know what happend.  Next time I opend Synaptic it was there....   Now it's OK.  :)

I installed glipper. Activated it using Alt+F2 so it was put into the panel.  It does however not work as i should. 

Alt+F2 works fine!  :)

Bluetooth connecting still does not work.

• Online MP3 playback doesn't work. Totem-mozilla is used by default and doesn't work well with it. If you remove totem-mozilla, MP3 playback works fine in Firefox, but then Quicktime isn't as well implemented (it's a trade-off, neither plugins are working 100% at the moment).

• MD5 integration is missing in this release (all editions). Neither Caja or Nautilus implement a proper mechanism for this yet and we'll need to re-add this feature in the future using a different implementation.