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Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.

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

Fedora 23 will feature the latest available version of Gnome - 3.18. More information on Gnome 3.18 can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes

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-==Xfce==
+== 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.
-Fedora 15 sees the introduction of Xfce 4.8. This new release remains true to Xfce's goal of providing a fast, lightweight yet user-friendly desktop environment, while adding a range of new features and incremental improvements:
+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
-* '''Remote share browsing''': Thunar, Xfce's file manager, now has support for GVFS, allowing easy remote access to files and folders on Windows shares and FTP, Webdav and SSH servers;
-* '''New Xfce Panel''' with improved positioning and size handling, alpha transparency, a new item editor and drag'n'drop launcher creation;
-* '''New Panel plugins''' such as '''window buttons''', which merges the features of the icon box and the tasklist into a single configurable plugin, and '''directory menu''', allowing quick browsing of a folder's tree structure;
-* '''Easy application menu editing''' with any Freedesktop-compliant menu editor, such as Alacarte;
-* '''Improved multihead display configuration''' including a quick setup dialog;
-* '''Improved keyboard layout selection''' - wave goodbye to cryptic langauge/variant codes, and select the keyboard layout for your language in your language!
-* And, in the venerable tradition of Xfce releases, a new clock mode - '''fuzzy clock mode!'''
-== GNOME ==
+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.
-Fedora 15 includes GNOME 3. It brings the first major overhaul of the GNOME user experience in 10 years.
+== Sugar ==
-Advanced user can install ''gnome-tweak-tool'' to customize desktop environment.
-== KDE ==
-This release features KDE 4.6.
+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.
-KDE 4.6 is the latest release of KDE 4. There are many enhancements and new features.
+This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:
+* improved performance
+* updated activities
+* New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning
-== Sugar ==
+See the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.106/Notes SugarLabs release notes] for more information on this sugar release.
-Sugar has been updated to the latest version 0.92 in Fedora 15. This
+== GNOME / Workstation ==
-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.
+Fedora 23 will feature the latest available version of Gnome - 3.18. More information on Gnome 3.18 can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes
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