en-US/Desktop.xml
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 27 00:17:24 UTC 2009
en-US/Desktop.xml | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit a55f555168d39ab23fb66d707fa75ce55fe86ff3
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Mon Oct 26 20:17:15 2009 -0400
Updates from wiki
diff --git a/en-US/Desktop.xml b/en-US/Desktop.xml
index 090acdc..78b95f0 100644
--- a/en-US/Desktop.xml
+++ b/en-US/Desktop.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-GNOME">
<title>GNOME 2.28</title>
<para>
- The <application>GNOME 2.28</application> development snapshot is part of this release, and is the default environment used in the Fedora Desktop Live image. The Desktop Live image is a downloadable CD you can use to test the new GNOME environment with or without installing it. The image can be written to CD, or to a USB flash disk; for instructions, refer to <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo"></ulink>.
+ The <application>GNOME 2.28.1</application> desktop is part of this release, and is the default environment used in the Fedora Desktop Live image. The Desktop Live image is a downloadable CD you can use to test the new GNOME environment with or without installing it. The image can be written to CD, or to a USB flash disk; for instructions, refer to <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo"></ulink>.
</para>
<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-GNOME-Icons">
<title>Icons in menus and buttons</title>
@@ -70,6 +70,46 @@
<command>gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true</command></screen>
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-GNOME-Changes">
+ <title>Additional imrpovements in GNOME 2.28</title>
+ <para>
+ Compared to previous Fedora releases, there are a
+ number of other changes in the default configuration
+ of the GNOME desktop:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para> The 'Windows' preference dialog
+ is no longer installed by default. It is still
+ available in the control-center-extra package
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> The 'Main Menu' preference dialog
+ is no longer installed by default. It is still
+ available in the alacarte package
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> The user switcher has been moved
+ to the far right of the top panel
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> The 'Show Desktop' button has
+ been removed by default. If you prefer, you can
+ add this panel applet back with right click, "Add
+ to Panel..." and selecting "Show Desktop".
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> The number of workspaces in the
+ 'Workspace Switcher' has been reduced to 2
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> The panel now adds padding
+ between applets and between icons in the
+ notification area. The padding can be removed with
+ the following commands:
+ <screen>
+gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/padding 0
+gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/padding 0
+gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/panel/applets/systray/prefs/padding 0
+ </screen>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-GNOME-Gnote">
<title>Gnote</title>
<para>
@@ -161,7 +201,7 @@
<application>KDE 4.3</application> is part of this release and is the default environment in the Fedora KDE Desktop Live image. The KDE Desktop Live image is a downloadable CD you can use to test the new KDE environment with or without installing it. You can write the image to a CD or to a USB flash drive.
</para>
<para>
- <application>KDE 4.3</application> is the latest release of KDE 4, with many enhancements and new features. <application>Plasma</application> has a new <citetitle>Air</citetitle> look, improved job and notification management and fully-configurable keyboard shortcuts. There are also new <application>Plasma</application> widgets and existing ones are improved. <application>KWin</application> is optimized for performance and brings new desktop effects to KDE. KDE now contains a new bug reporting tool, making it easier to report bugs to the KDE developers. The <application>gstreamer Phonon</application> back end is now the default.
+ <application>KDE 4.3</application> is the latest release of KDE 4, with many enhancements and new features. <application>Plasma</application> has a new <citetitle>Air</citetitle> look, improved job and notification management and fully-configurable keyboard shortcuts. There are also new <application>Plasma</application> widgets and existing ones are improved. <application>KWin</application> is optimized for performance and brings new desktop effects to KDE. KDE now contains a new bug reporting tool, making it easier to report bugs to the KDE developers.
</para>
</section>
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