[release-notes] Add section on GNOME
Petr Kovář
pmkovar at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 15 13:30:06 UTC 2015
commit 0c8f8bce4b35f4162ceb2f201f1fb8f8cc1fcb81
Author: Petr Kovar <pkovar at redhat.com>
Date: Wed Apr 15 15:29:48 2015 +0200
Add section on GNOME
en-US/Desktop.xml | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Desktop.xml b/en-US/Desktop.xml
index 30ca1e6..e34f371 100644
--- a/en-US/Desktop.xml
+++ b/en-US/Desktop.xml
@@ -10,24 +10,43 @@
<section id="desktop-gdm_wayland">
<title>GDM on Wayland</title>
<para>
- The <application>Gnome Display Manager</application> (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the <application>Wayland</application> display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.
+ The <application>GNOME Display Manager</application> (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the <application>Wayland</application> display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.
</para>
<para>
Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering. On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.
</para>
<para>
If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit <filename>/etc/gdm/custom.conf</filename> to reflect the following:
- <screen>
- [daemon]
- WaylandEnable=false
- </screen>
+ <screen>[daemon]
+WaylandEnable=false</screen>
</para>
</section>
-
<section id="desktop-GNOME">
<title>GNOME</title>
- <para />
+ <para>GNOME has been updated to the latest upstream release 3.16. This release comes with a number of feature improvements, some of which are listed below.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The GNOME 3 notification system has been completely redesigned for 3.14. The message tray, used in previous versions of GNOME, was replaced with a new message list that the user can access from the GNOME Shell top bar.</para>
+ <para>GNOME Shell's calendar drop down has also been substantially changed to improve the overall user experience.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The list and grid views in the <application>Files</application> application have been improved so that they are easier to use.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Activities overview, login screen and other parts of the GNOME Desktop come with an updated look.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The 3.14 release introduces a new style of scrollbars that are only shown when the pointer is moved. They change size when the user clicks on them.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The 3.14 release includes new games, <application>gnome-2048</application> and <application>gnome-taquin</application>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Support for codec, font, and MIME handler installation has been moved from <application>gnome-packagekit</application> to <application>gnome-software</application>. A new UI has been added to support these features.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
</section>
<section id="desktop-KDE">
<title>KDE</title>
@@ -43,7 +62,7 @@
<section id="desktop-XFCE">
<title>XFCE 4.12</title>
<para>
- Fedora 22 comes with an updated, improved version of the popular <application>Xfce</application> desktop environment. This new release comes with a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the desktop environment and its default applications.
+ Fedora 22 comes with an updated, improved version of the popular <application>Xfce</application> desktop environment. This new release introduces a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the desktop environment and its default applications.
</para>
<para>
Notable changes include:
@@ -138,7 +157,7 @@
Input devices will be configurable through GNOME Settings, KDE System Settings, xfce-settings, or xinput. Some niche features are not available via libinput, but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably <package>x11-drv-synaptics</package> or <package>xorg-x11-drv-evdev</package>, are installed.
</para>
<para>
- Note that <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install the package manually:
+ Note that <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you are upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install the package manually:
</para>
<screen>
<prompt>#</prompt> <command>dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput</command>
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