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| | == GDM on Wayland == |
| ==GNOME 3.10== | | 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. |
| Fedora 20 features GNOME 3.10. This latest version of the GNOME desktop will have a number of new applications and features: | |
| * New Feature: Fine grained scrolling when dragging the scroll bar handle, or scrolling while holding the shift key.
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| * New feature: Support for login and authentication with Smart Cards.
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| * New feature: Header bars: Header bars merge title bars and toolbars into a single element, giving more screen space to window content and improving presentation of application controls.
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| * Improved Magnifier with caret tracking, press F7 to activate caret.
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| * New Feature: Lock screen background customization
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| * New feature: Geolocation: A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when travelling and location detection in `Maps`.
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| * New feature: `GNOME Documents` support for OwnCloud
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| * New feature: Drag and drop files between your computer and a `Boxes` guest. Windows guests will need http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/ installed, and linux guests will need an updated version of spice-vdagent.
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| * New Feature: `Boxes` support for importing filesystem images
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| * Improved user interface for "Comtacts"
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| * Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays.
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| * Improved application selection in the shell Overview
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| * Flikr integration with GNOME Online Accounts allows access to Flikr content in GNOME Photos.
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| * Improved, integrated system status menu.
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| * Redesigned `gnome-tweak-tool`, with improved design, extension integration, and expanded functionality.
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| * New: `gnome-maps`, A simple map application for the GNOME Desktop.
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| * New: `gnome-music`, a streamlined application for playing and sharing music.
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| GNOME 3.10 also offers a technical preview of GNOME support for wayland.
| | 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. |
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| ===GNOME Software===
| | If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit '''/etc/gdm/custom.conf''' to reflect the following: |
| A new, visually appealing application for browsing and installing applications.
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| There is also preliminary support in this release for running GNOME-shell as a Wayland compositor, though Wayland may not be in the default packages for the final Fedora 20 release.
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| ===More reading=== | | == Libinput used for input devices == |
| To learn more about GNOME 3.10, check:
| | 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. |
| * Upstream release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/
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| * New applications: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-apps.html
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| * User Experience updates: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-core-ux.html
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| * Internationalization notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/i18n.html
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| * Sysadmin/Developer Notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/developers.html
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| ==KDE==
| | '''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. |
| ===KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11===
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| KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is a long term release of the popular, full featured desktop environment. Major changes have been made to user experience, personal information management, and performance aspects of the platform.
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| | 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. |
| * Taskbar has been [http://blogs.kde.org/2013/07/29/kde-plasma-desktop-411s-new-task-manager ported to QtQuick ], providing more consistent and fluent behavior.
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| * Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness, and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals, such as in mice and keyboards.
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| * Notification popups now have a configure button, allowing customization of the type of notification displayed.
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| * Kmix, the KDE sound mixer, performs better and more stably, in addition to [http://kmix5.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/kmix-mission-statement-2013/ adding media player controls to the widget]
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| * Improved performance of Kwin, the KDE window manager.
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| * Text editor Kate has new plugins for Python2, Python3, Javascript, JQuery, and XML.
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| * Improved user interface design in Kwallet.
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| * Kolourpaint, a simple painting application, now supports the WebP image format.
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| * PDF viewer Okular adds review tools and undo/redo support for annotations and forms.
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| * The JuK audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files.
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| | 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: |
| * Improved Kontact Suite, including better archiving, scheduled mail sending, simple message filtering interface, better notifications, and scam detection in Kmail.
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| Performance:
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| * Numerous optimizations to Dolphin reduce memory usage by up to 30%.
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| * Better indexing and various improvements to Nemopuk make searches up to 6x faster, adds indexing for ODF, docx and other document formats, and improves backup and restoration functionality.
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| ** Note: Users upgrading to new versions of Nemopuk should expect their database to be automatically reindexed and upgraded. The conversion will consume more system resources than normal but will only occur on the first login after upgrading.
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| ===SDDM as Display Manager===
| | To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to `man libinput` or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html |
| The KDE Desktop environment will use SDDM instead of KDM as the designated display and login manager. SDDM is the successor to KDM, and adds support for QtQuick themes.
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| Some features may be missing from SDDM, such as XDMCP, VNC, multiseat support, or Keyboard layout switching in the greeter. However, the SDDM development community is very active and regular additions to functionality are expected.
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| ===Plasma-nm Network applet===
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| In Fedora 20 the MATE desktop Bluetooth applet suffers compatibility issues with Bluez5. Users needing Bluetooth functionality should install the `bluedevil` package
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| [[Category:Docs Project]] | | [[Category:Docs Project]] |
| [[Category:Draft documentation]] | | [[Category:Draft documentation]] |
| [[Category:Documentation beats]] | | [[Category:Documentation beats]] |
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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
