10. Fedora Desktop
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This section details changes that affect Fedora graphical desktop users.
10.1. GNOME
This release features GNOME 2.20.
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"
10.2. KDE
This release features KDE
3.5.8. In addition, the kdepim package has
been updated to a version from the
kdepim/enterprise branch, which includes
many bugfixes and enhancements beyond the stock upstream
kdepim.
Fedora 8 does not include the KDE 4 Desktop because the currently available prerelease versions are not ready for daily use. It does include the KDE 4 Development Platform, which can be used to develop, build, and run KDE 4 applications within KDE 3 or any other desktop environment. See the Development section for more details about what is included.
Since knetworkmanager does not work with
the version of NetworkManager available
in this release, the KDE Live images use
nm-applet from
NetworkManager-gnome as a replacement. The
gnome-keyring-daemon facility saves passwords
for these encryption technologies. The
knetworkmanager package in this release is a
script that calls nm-applet. The
knetworkmanager package will be updated to
provide a KDE frontend when a compatible version is
available.
Due to the merge of compiz and beryl into compiz-fusion, KDE now uses compiz. To switch from kwin to compiz, use the helper provided in the menu under → .
10.3. Web Browsers
This release of Fedora includes version 2.0 of the popular Firefox web browser. Refer to http://firefox.com/ for more information about Firefox.
10.3.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
Fedora includes an experimental free and open source implementation of Flash called gnash. We encourage you to experiment with gnash before seeking out Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin software.
To install Adobe Flash plugin follow this procedure:
Visit Adobe's download site.
Choose option 3, .
Follow onscreen prompts to install the package.
Launch → .
Choose the Search tab and enter
flash-plugin.Select the checkbox to install the package.
Close all Firefox windows, and then launch Firefox again.
Type
about:pluginsin the URL bar to ensure the plugin is loaded.
Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64 Firefox and the pulseaudio-libs.i386 package to enable sound from the plugin..
Create the 32bit mozilla plugin directory using this command:
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins'
Install the nspluginwrapper.i386, nspluginwrapper.x86_64, and pulseaudio-libs.i386 packages:
su -c "yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-libs.i386"Install flash-plugin as shown above.
Run
mozilla-plugin-configto register the flash plugin:su -c 'mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v'
Close all Firefox windows, and then relaunch Firefox.
Type
about:pluginsin the URL bar to ensure the plugin is loaded.
10.4. Mail Clients
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.
10.5. Liberation Fonts
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.