A few weeks ago, I upgrade all cinnamon ebuilds to 2.4 in tree. However I could not get Cinnamon (shell part) to actually work, as in show anything useful on my display. So this is a public service announcement that if you like Cinnamon and want to help with this issue, please visit bug #536374. For some reason, the hacks found in gnome-shell does not seem to work with cinnamon’s shell.