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Fedora Desktop

Welcome! This is the home page and clearing house for information for the Desktop SIG for Fedora. This page should be centered around Desktop-releated features and projects; for people and meetings, go to the SIG page .


F8 Features

These are features that we have been working on for some time; most of them are available in F8 test2.

  • Better Bluetooth support, see Releases/FeatureBluetoothFedora8
  • Pulse'Audio sound server, see Releases/FeaturePulseaudio
  • Codec'Buddy, see Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy
  • Policy'Kit, see Releases/FeaturePolicyKit . Policy'Kit itself is in test2, and hal uses it. Additional things that we want to land: gnome-device-manager, timezone changing from the clock applet
  • Better laptop support, see Releases/FeatureLaptopImprovements , Releases/FeatureTicklessKernel
  • Improved user switching, see Releases/FeatureRemovePAMConsole , Pulseaudio
  • Bigboard, see Releases/FeatureBigboard
  • Get rid of the X font server, see Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS
  • Network'Manager by default, see Releases/FeatureNetworkManager . The desktop spin does run Network'Manager by default, but we have not yet switched to the 0.7 branch, which brings in many improvements. We hope to do the switch shortly after test2.
  • Xulrunner, see Features/XULRunner . This will appear after F8 test2.
  • Animated backgrounds, the code for this was already present in F7, but nobody knew it existed, since we didn't get around to creating an animated background to go with it. For F8, the new theme will included one or more animated backgrounds. See this mail for some explanation of this feature.
  • New theme, is in the hands of the Fedora Art community, see Releases/Features/NodokaTheme , Artwork/F8Themes/Infinity . Some parts are already included in F8 test2, like the Nodoka GTK+ theme, preliminary backgrounds, syslinux and rhgb themes.
  • Better panel launchers. The email and web browser launchers in the default panel configuration now use the right icons for the selected app, and update when the preferred applications are changed.
  • Compiz: F8 will have compiz 0.6 with the default configuration pretty similar to what it was in F7; the new plugins from the Beryll-Compiz merger will be available in the compiz-fusion package.

F9 Features

Features that were completed in F9:

  • Bluetooth Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements
  • [Releases/FeatureClockApplet| Clock Applet]] Improve the support for multiple timezones/locations in the clock applet
  • Dictionary Support Fix the proliferation of dictionaries in Fedora
  • Fast X start up and shutdown Increase response time to 1 second from exec to accepting clients
  • Firefox 3 Upgrade to Firefox 3
  • gdm Update to new upstream Gnome Desktop Manager
  • Gvfs A userspace virtual filesystem with backends for things like sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obexftp, etc. It is the replacement/successor of gnome-vfs
  • More NetworkManager Expand the situations in which NetworkManager can be used and make it more robust
  • PackageKit Provide alternative package management system
  • Randr Support Use the capabilities offered by the Xrandr X extension throughout the desktop
  • Update X Server Update X server to at least version 1.5
  • XULRunner Introducing and ensuring that all the applications that need only the Gecko browser engine are using XULRunner


Long Term Features

These are features that we want to work on for F9 and beyond.


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