Fedora Desktop
This section details changes that affect Fedora graphical desktop users.
GNOME
Gnome-panel
Previously, users could move the gnome-panel to from one part of the desktop to another by clicking on the gnome-panel, dragging it to another location while holding down the mouse button, and releasing the mouse button. Now, users must also hold down a key on the keyboard while moving the gnome-panel. By default, this modifier key is the Alt key, but users may change it to any other key by using the windows preference tool (System>Preferences>Windows).
This change in behavior greatly reduces the chances of a user accidentally moving the panel, and makes moving the gnome-panel the same as moving windows in GNOME.
Bluetooth
The bluez-gnome
Bluetooth management tools was replaced by gnome-bluetooth
. This adds easy access to switching Bluetooth on/off for laptops, and an easier to use new device setup assistant.
The ObexFTP browsing code now has write support (it was read-only and delete before).
KDE
This release features KDE 4.2.2.
Fedora 11 includes a snapshot of the NetworkManager plasmoid kde-plasma-networkmanagement
, which replaces the KDE 3 knetworkmanager
snapshot in Fedora 10. As it was not considered ready for production use, the KDE Live images still use nm-applet
from NetworkManager-gnome
instead, as in Fedora 8, 9 and 10. The gnome-keyring-daemon
facility saves passwords for nm-applet
. If you wish to try kde-plasma-networkmanagement
, it can be installed from the repository.
TODO: Do we want to repeat the same old blurbs from the F10 release notes here?
Enhancements
TODO
Package and Application Changes
TODO