2. Modificaciones en Fedora para usuarios de escritorio
2.1.1. Major package changes
2.1.1.1. man to man-db package exchange
The package man is substituted by package man-db which provides similar functionality:
man description: The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The man application formats and displays on-line manual pages about commands or functions on your system. apropos searches the whatis database (containing short descriptions of system commands) for a string. The whatis searches its own database for a complete word.
man-db description : The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man pages: man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man preformats and displays manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in manual pages.
Due to changes in Twitter's authentication mechanisms Pino is no longer able to utilize this service. Due to this degraded functionality, Pino has been removed as the default program for social networking services such as identi.ca and Twitter. Other programs, such as gwibber, are available from the Fedora repositories that can utilized as a replacement for Pino. To install gwibber or another such package, use the → → tool from the main menu.
Fedora 14 includes the updated KDE SC ("Software Compilation") version 4.5. The KDE developers worked on usability and stability for version 4.5. The result is a faster, easier, and more stable desktop experience. Many bugs are fixed and subtle but important improvements made to hidden components, so KDE now works the way you want.
2.1.2.1. KDE Background Components
Some of the enhancements to background components include:
Phonon, the sound server for KDE applications, can now directly use the PulseAudio sound server.
An enhanced memory-cache feature that helps to speed up different applications using the same resources (like icons).
The WebKit web page rendering engine, as used in other popular web browsers like Safari and Chrome, is now available in Konqueror and other KDE applications. Konqueror also features improvements that enable it to load web pages faster.
2.1.2.2. KDE Plasma Workspaces
Some of the enhancements to the "Plasma" desktop and netbook workspaces include:
An improved notification area and system tray. Application icons are now monochromatic, making them easier to see. Visual progress bars have been added to the widgets for long-running operations like file transfers and downloads.
The
KWin window manager features many improvements:
You can add or remove virtual desktops in the "Desktop Grid" view.
You can lay out your windows without overlap by using the window-tiling feature.
You can move windows by dragging any empty area in the window, rather than just the title bar.
You can save and restore "activities," which are a set of plasma widgets. Use this feature to gather all of your social networking widgets in one activity, and all of your hardware monitor widgets in one activity, for example.
2.1.2.3. KDE Applications
Some of the enhancements to background components include:
A new game, Kajongg, is a four-player version of mahjongg. This is the first KDE game to take advantage of the KDE programming language extensions for Python, which allow programmers to write software more easily and with fewer bugs.
The Marble desktop globe application has support for planning trips, based on OpenStreetmap and OpenRouteService. You can also load this information before you start on a trip, meaning that you can access map and route information even when you cannot access the internet.
The Gwenview document viewer now runs smoothly even while using processor-intensive visual effects. It is also more configurable and stable in all conditions. You can even share your pictures online more easily with the integrated Flickr upload feature.
The Dolphin file manager, and other KDE components, offer better integration with semantic meta-data provided by the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop.
Lightweight X Desktop Environment, or
LXDE, is available in Fedora 14.
Changes to
LXDE include:
lxappearance has been updated to version 0.5. The "Look and Feel" configuration was completely rewritten and now supports many more features including setting mouse cursor themes, custom colors, icon sizes in menus and buttons, turning icons in menus and buttons on and off, and enabling event sounds.
The display manager lxdm has been updated to version 0.3.0. It now has a user list and a timeout, so we can select the language and the keyboard setting on the login window. This is very handy for the livecd.
lxterminal has been updated to version 0.1.9 and now has new features like true transparency for composite window managers.
Fedora 14 contains a selection of software from the MeeGo™ project.
MeeGo™ is an operating environment and development kit for next-generation mobile and device platforms, formed from the merger of Intel's Moblin project and Nokia's Maemo project, and backed by the
Linux Foundation. It includes a rich set of software and libraries that support multiple architectures and multiple app stores, and are well aligned with a variety of upstream free and open source software projects. Fedora 14 offers an integrated subset of software from the MeeGo project. Users can try the software on any personal computer, including netbooks or other small systems, and interested developers can contribute to the development of this exciting new platform. Note that a small portion of software from MeeGo is not included to improve integration with other Fedora applications, and therefore this subset is not expected to achieve 100% MeeGo compliance.
Fedora 14 includes the latest
Sugar Learning Environment (0.90), including an enhanced activity set to provide a stable demo environment for Sugar as well as an environment for developers.
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.
Version 7 of
awstats beta is now available. This version allows detection of Windows 7 clients, can format numbers according to localization, and many other new features. These are detailed in the
awstats-changelog.
Fedora 14 now includes chatzilla, an IRC client. chatzilla may be installed alone, or with chatzilla-gnome, allowing irc: addresses to be handled in GNOME.
clamz is new to Fedora. It is an open source replacement for Amazon's MP3 downloader. clamz may be used to download individual songs or complete albums that you have purchased from Amazon's Music Store.
For more informations, refer to
clamz website.
claws-mail 3.7.6 includes new filtering features, a number of user interface enhancements, and several new translations. Refer to the
summary news for of all the new features.
ekiga has been updated to 3.2.7. This release includes a large number of fixes, including a number of user-visible changes, mostly in the area of more sensible defaults. For complete details refer to the official ekiga
release notes.
The emacs-w3m pager is now available, which has WWW capability. It is said to be faster than the old W3 browser, making it a preferable alternative.
For more informations, refer to
emacs-w3m website.
eurephia is new to Fedora 14.
eurephia is an authentication plug-in for OpenVPN. You may learn more, on
eurephia's web-site.
2.2.8. gnome-applet-netspeed
gnome-applet-netspeed is just a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device.
gnome-applet-netspeed is new to Fedora 14. You can learn more, on
gnome.org-netspeed web-site.
2.2.9. gnome-applet-remmina
Also new to Fedora 14 is
gnome-applet-remmina. This is a remote desktop client supporting RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH. Find out all about it at
remmina.sourceforge.net.
gnome-gmail adds Gmail support to the GNOME desktop. Also new to Fedora 14, view
here for the details.
maildirproc is a mail processing agent, with similar functionality to
procmail, but unlike
procmail,
maildirproc operates on already delivered mail. For more information visit
upstream site.
openconnect has been upgraded from version 2.22 to 2.24. In addition to bugfixes, there are a number of security enhancements. The full details may be reviewed at
openconnect website.
