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Major package changes

man to man-db package exchange

The package man is substituted by package man-db which provides similar functionality:

man description: The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The 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.

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.

KDE SC 4.5

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.

Some of the enhancements to background components include:

  • Phonon, the sound server for KDE applications, can now directly use the PulseAudio sound server.
  • An enhanced memory-cache feature that helps to speed up different applications using the same resources (like icons).
  • The WebKit 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.

Some of the enhancements to the "Plasma" desktop and netbook workspaces include:

  • 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.
  • The KWin window manager features many improvements:
    • You can add or remove virtual desktops in the "Desktop Grid" view.
    • You can lay out your windows without overlap by using the window-tiling feature.
    • You can move windows by dragging any empty area in the window, rather than just the title bar.
  • 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.

Some of the enhancements to other applications in the Software Compilation include:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Dolphin file manager, and other KDE components, offer better integration with semantic meta-data provided by the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop.

MeeGo

MeeGo Netbook UX 1.0 is available in Fedora 14.

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.


Sugar

Fedora 14 includes the latest 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.

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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