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Cinnamon Spin

The Cinnamon desktop version 2.6 is now available as a Spin for Fedora 23. Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment based on the GNOME Shell, with advanced features and a traditional and flexible user experience.

Updates and improvements in this release include:

Improved multi-monitor support
HTML5 and XScreenSaver support for animated screensavers
Panel management improvements
New inhibit applet to hide notifications and temporarily suspend power saving events
Redesigned system settings panel for improved usability
Accessibility improvements, including better support for ATK/Orca, magnifiers, and and a new On-Screen Keyboard applet

See the Cinnamon official website for more information on Cinnamon, and go to http://spins.fedoraproject.org to download the Spin.

Sugar

Originally started as part of the One Laptop per child initiative, Sugar is a desktop environment targeted for children ages 5 - 12 to provide learning and educational activities through rich media. Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with the opportunity for a quality education.

This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:

improved performance
updated activities
New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning

See the SugarLabs release notes for more information on this sugar release.

GNOME / Workstation

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-== GNOME Software ==
+== Cinnamon Spin ==
+The Cinnamon desktop version 2.6 is now available as a Spin for Fedora 23. Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment based on the GNOME Shell, with advanced features and a traditional and flexible user experience.
+Updates and improvements in this release include:
+* Improved multi-monitor support
+* HTML5 and XScreenSaver support for animated screensavers
+* Panel management improvements
+* New inhibit applet to hide notifications and temporarily suspend power saving events
+* Redesigned system settings panel for improved usability
+* Accessibility improvements, including better support for ATK/Orca, magnifiers, and and a new On-Screen Keyboard applet
+See the [http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Cinnamon official website] for more information on Cinnamon, and go to [http://spins.fedoraproject.org http://spins.fedoraproject.org] to download the Spin.
+== Sugar ==
+Originally started as part of the One Laptop per child initiative, Sugar is a desktop environment targeted for children ages 5 - 12 to provide learning and educational activities through rich media. Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with the opportunity for a quality education.
-The GNOME Software application installer (the '''gnome-software''' package), which was first introduced in Fedora 20, is now more integrated in the system and provides additional functionality. Notable new features include:
+This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:
-* Installing application add-ons is now supported.
+* improved performance
-* High quality metadata, such as screenshots, are now offered for many applications, allowing you to gather more information before installing a package.
+* updated activities
-* The tool has been turned into a session service, which allows it to check for available system updates automatically even when the application itself has not been launched by the user. This functionality was previously provided by the '''gnome-settings-daemon''' service.
+* New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning
-* The application is now much better integrated into GNOME Shell:
-** Available system updates are now offered in the ''Power Off'' dialog.
-** Non-installed packages can now be displayed among search results when using the integrated search function.
-** You can now right-click an application icon in the shell overview and select ''Show Details'' from the menu to obtain information about an installed package.
-* You can now create and customize application folders using the application installer.
-* The tool now starts up much faster and provides a more responsive interface due to the switch from the YUM backend to the one provided by the DNF project.
-See the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstallerContinued Application Installer Continued wiki page] for more information.
-== (Notes, do not publicanize) ==
+See the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.106/Notes SugarLabs release notes] for more information on this sugar release.
-Mesa update
+== GNOME / Workstation ==
-SDL2 stack
+[[Category:Docs Project]]
+[[Category:Draft documentation]]
+[[Category:Documentation beats]]

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