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This section details changes that affect Fedora graphical desktop users.
This release of Fedora now includes the new common user directory
structure, xdg-user-dirs. Features of
these new user directories include:
Directory names can be localized (translated)
Includes a set of common directories by default, such as for documents, music, pictures, and downloads.
Appear as common bookmarks in the file browser, and are picked up by many applications as app-specific defaults. For example, a music player would start the file opening dialog in the default music directory.
Configurable by users, who can move or rename the directories via the Nautilus file manager, or by editing
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.
If you do not want default folders to be created, remove the xdg-user-dirs package and associated dependencies.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxdg_2duser_2ddirs
This release features GNOME 2.18 (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/)
The GNOME splash screen has been disabled upstream intentionally.
To enable it, use gconf-editor or the following
command:
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-session/options/show_splash_screen --type bool true
The lock screen dialog theme is not connected to the selected
screensaver in this release. To enable it, use
gconf-editor or the following command:
gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme "system"
This release of Fedora includes version 2.0 of the popular Firefox web browser. Refer to http://firefox.com/ for more information about Firefox.
The mail-notification package has been split. The Evolution plugin is now in a separate package called mail-notification-evolution-plugin. When you update the mail-notification package, the plugin is added automatically.
This release contains Thunderbird version 2.0, which has numerous performance improvements, folder viewing enhancements, and enhanced mail notification support.
This release of Fedora includes a set of fonts called "Liberation." These fonts are metric equivalents for well-known proprietary fonts prevalent on the Internet. With these fonts, users will find better cross-platform viewing and printing support for a variety of documents. Future versions of these fonts will be fully hinted.