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Xfce

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:

• 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

Fedora 15 includes GNOME 3. It brings the first major overhaul of the GNOME user experience in 10 years.

There is an excellent upstream wiki page that describes the major changes and explains different workflows. For details, refer to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet.

Advanced user can install gnome-tweak-tool to customize desktop environment.

KDE

This release features KDE 4.6.

KDE 4.6 is the latest release of KDE 4. There are many enhancements and new features.

Sugar

Sugar has been updated to the latest version 0.92 in Fedora 15. 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.