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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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+== Cinnamon Spin ==
-==Enlightenment==
+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.
-==GNOME 3.10==
+Updates and improvements in this release include:
-Fedora 20 features GNOME 3.10. This latest version of the GNOME desktop will have a number of new applications and features:
+* Improved multi-monitor support
-* New Feature: Fine grained scrolling when dragging the scroll bar handle, or scrolling while holding the shift key.
+* HTML5 and XScreenSaver support for animated screensavers
-* New feature: Support for login and authentication with Smart Cards.
+* Panel management improvements
-* 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.
+* New inhibit applet to hide notifications and temporarily suspend power saving events
-* Improved Magnifier with caret tracking, press F7 to activate caret.
+* Redesigned system settings panel for improved usability
-* New Feature: Lock screen background customization
+* Accessibility improvements, including better support for ATK/Orca, magnifiers, and and a new On-Screen Keyboard applet
-* New feature: Geolocation: A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when travelling and location detection in `Maps`.
-* New feature: `GNOME Documents` support for OwnCloud
-* 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.
-* New Feature: `Boxes` support for importing filesystem images
-* Improved user interface for "Comtacts"
-* Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays.
-* Improved application selection in the shell Overview
-* Flikr integration with GNOME Online Accounts allows access to Flikr content in GNOME Photos.
-* Improved, integrated system status menu.
-* Redesigned `gnome-tweak-tool`,  with improved design, extension integration, and expanded functionality.
-* New: `gnome-maps`, A simple map application for the GNOME Desktop.
-* New: `gnome-music`, a streamlined application for playing and sharing music.
-GNOME 3.10 also offers a technical preview of GNOME support for wayland.
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-===GNOME Software===
+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.
-A new, visually appealing application for browsing and installing applications.
-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.
+== Sugar ==
-===More reading===
+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.
-To learn more about GNOME 3.10, check:
-* Upstream release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/
-* New applications: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-apps.html
-* User Experience updates: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-core-ux.html
-* Internationalization notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/i18n.html
-* Sysadmin/Developer Notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/developers.html
-==KDE==
+This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:
-===KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11===
+* improved performance
-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.
+* updated activities
+* New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning
-User experience:
+See the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.106/Notes SugarLabs release notes] for more information on this sugar release.
-* 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.
-* Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness, and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals, such as in mice and keyboards.
-* Notification popups now have a configure button, allowing customization of the type of notification displayed.
-* 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]
-* Improved performance of Kwin, the KDE window manager.
-<!-- including wayland support - http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/06/starting-a-full-kde-plasma-session-in-wayland/ - probably requires xwayland or whatever -->
-* Text editor Kate has new plugins for Python2, Python3, Javascript, JQuery, and XML.
-* Improved user interface design in Kwallet.
-<!-- Kscreen- wasn't that an F19 feature? -->
-* Kolourpaint, a simple painting application, now supports the WebP image format.
-* PDF viewer Okular adds review tools and undo/redo support for annotations and forms.
-* The JuK audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files.
-PIM:
+== GNOME / Workstation ==
-* Improved Kontact Suite, including better archiving, scheduled mail sending, simple message filtering interface, better notifications, and scam detection in Kmail.
-Performance:
+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
-* Numerous optimizations to Dolphin reduce memory usage by up to 30%.
-* 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.
-** 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.
-===SDDM as Display Manager===
-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.
-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.
-===Plasma-nm Network applet===
-KDE in Fedora 20 includes Plasma-nm, a new applet for network management. It supports user-friendly creation and editing of all connection types from NetworkManager, including bridges, bonds, and VPNs, with a modern and intuitive interface.
-==MATE==
-===bluetooth===
-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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