As you know, Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome-Shell with the look &
feel &
workflow of Gnome2, developed and maintained by Clement Lefebvre
"Clem" from Linux-Mint.
At the moment, already rpms and debs for other distributions like
Ubuntu,
Fedora, Arch and OpenSuse are built:
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61
In my opinion, Cinnamon will be a sustainable alternative for
ex-Gnome2-users,
who don't like the "smartphone-look" of Gnome3
So I propose to implement Cinnamon also in Mageia as a third "heavy"
DE next to
KDE4 and Gnome3
Regards,
Bernd