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| == Major package changes ==
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| === man to man-db package exchange === | | == GDM on Wayland == |
| The package '''man''' is substituted by package '''man-db''' which provides similar functionality: | | The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer. |
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| man description: The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The
| | Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering. On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend. |
| man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about commands or functions on your system. Apropos searches the whatis database (containing short descriptions of system commands) for a string. Whatis searches its own database for a complete word.
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| man-db description : The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages: man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man preformats and displays manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in manual pages.
| | If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit '''/etc/gdm/custom.conf''' to reflect the following: |
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| == KDE SC 4.5 == | | [daemon] |
| Fedora 14 includes the updated KDE SC ("Software Compilation") version 4.5. The KDE developers worked on usability and stability for version 4.5. The result is a faster, easier, and more stable desktop experience. Many bugs are fixed and subtle but important improvements made to hidden components, so KDE now works the way you want.
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| Some of the enhancements to background components include:
| | == Libinput used for input devices == |
| * <code>Phonon</code>, the sound server for KDE applications, can now directly use the <code>PulseAudio</code> sound server.
| | Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, '''libinput'''. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as '''synaptics''', enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices. |
| * An enhanced memory-cache feature that helps to speed up different applications using the same resources (like icons).
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| * The <code>WebKit</code> web page rendering engine, as used in other popular web browsers like '''Safari''' and '''Chrome''', is now available in '''Konqueror''' and other KDE applications. '''Konqueror''' also features improvements that enable it to load web pages faster.
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| Some of the enhancements to the "Plasma" desktop and netbook workspaces include:
| | '''libinput'' improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' wrapper. |
| * An improved notification area and system tray. Application icons are now monochromatic, making them easier to see. Visual progress bars have been added to the widgets for long-running operations like file transfers and downloads.
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| * The <code>KWin</code> window manager features many improvements:
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| ** You can add or remove virtual desktops in the "Desktop Grid" view.
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| ** You can lay out your windows without overlap by using the window-tiling feature.
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| ** You can move windows by dragging any empty area in the window, rather than just the title bar.
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| * You can save and restore "activities," which are a set of plasma widgets. Use this feature to gather all of your social networking widgets in one activity, and all of your hardware monitor widgets in one activity, for example.
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| Some of the enhancements to other applications in the Software Compilation include:
| | Input devices will be configurable through '''GNOME Settings''', '''KDE System Settings''', '''xfce-settings''', or '''xinput'''. Some niche features are not available via '''libinput''', but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed. |
| * A new game, '''Kajongg'', is a four-player version of mahjongg. This is the first KDE game to take advantage of the KDE programming language extensions for Python, which allow programmers to write software more easily and with fewer bugs.
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| * The '''Marble''' desktop globe application has support for planning trips, based on OpenStreetmap and OpenRouteService. You can also load this information before you start on a trip, meaning that you can access map and route information even when you cannot access the internet.
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| * The '''Gwenview''' document viewer now runs smoothly even while using processor-intensive visual effects. It is also more configurable and stable in all conditions. You can even share your pictures online more easily with the integrated Flickr upload feature.
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| * The '''Dolphin''' file manager, and other KDE components, offer better integration with semantic meta-data provided by the <code>Nepomuk Semantic Desktop</code>.
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| == MeeGo ==
| | Note that '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' manually by doing: |
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| MeeGo Netbook UX 1.0 is available in Fedora 14.
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| The MeeGo™ Architecture is designed to support multiple platforms and usage models ranging from Netbooks and NetTops to Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and various embedded usage models, such as In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. MeeGo Netbook UX is built on the GNOME Mobile platform, extending and enriching it with new technologies like Clutter, GUPnP and libsocialweb. The MeeGo Netbook UX is the user environment that sits of top of Fedora and associated MeeGo core services. The netbook user interface and user interaction model for the target devices then is on top of that. The Fedora 14 implementation specifically targets the Netbook UX.
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| Fedora 14 includes the latest [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Learning Environment] (0.90), including an enhanced activity set to provide a stable demo environment for Sugar as well as an environment for developers.
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| This version provides major usability improvements for the first login screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support for 3G networks.
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| | To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to `man libinput` or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html |
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| [[Category:Docs Project]] | | [[Category:Docs Project]] |
| [[Category:Draft documentation]] | | [[Category:Draft documentation]] |
| [[Category:Documentation beats]] | | [[Category:Documentation beats]] |
Beat is open
This beat is now ready to have Fedora 25 content added by the beat writer
GDM on Wayland
The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.
Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering. On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.
If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to reflect the following:
[daemon]
WaylandEnable=false
Libinput used for input devices
Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, libinput. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as synaptics, enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices.
'libinput improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper.
Input devices will be configurable through GNOME Settings, KDE System Settings, xfce-settings, or xinput. Some niche features are not available via libinput, but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the xorg-x11-drv-libinput package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed.
Note that xorg-x11-drv-libinput is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install xorg-x11-drv-libinput manually by doing:
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput
To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to man libinput or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html
