Desktop

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 .

Long Term Features

These are some of the features that we want to work on for F11 and beyond. See also Desktop/Whiteboards for in-planning ideas.

• Application Installer, see Features/ApplicationInstaller
• More Bluetooth improvements: see Features/Bluetooth

F11 Features

Features that we are working on with the goal to include them in F11.

• DeviceKit Disk and Device Management
• Rhythmbox Default Ripper Use Rhythmbox as the default CD ripping application
• Automatic Font Installation Make it easier to install missing fonts
• DRI2 Improve Direct Rendering Infrastructure
• Volume Control Streamlined volume control
• Empathy Use Empathy as the default IM client
• Gnome 2.26 Re-base Fedora to Gnome 2.26
• Fingerprint Support for fingerprint authentication
• Cups PolicyKit Integration Make system-config-printer use PolicyKit
• PolicyKit 1.0 Switch to PolicyKit 1.0
• Nouveau Use Nouveau as default driver for Nvidia GPUs
• Firefox 3.1 Re-base Fedora to Firefox 3.1

F10 Features

Features that are in F10.

• Better Printing Improve management and handling of printers
• Better Remote Support Make it easier to connect to remote controls and have them just work with many applications.
• Better Start-up Stream line graphical start up
• Connection Sharing Enable adhoc network sharing
• Evdev Input Driver Evdev is being used as the default input driver for X.Org
• Glitch Free Audio Rewrite the PulseAudio sound server to use timer-based audio scheduling
• Gnome 2.24 Re-base Fedora to Gnome 2.24
• GStreamer RPM dependencies Assist automated installation of GStreamer codecs provided by third-party repositories
• Kernel Modes Setting for Graphics Move graphic mode initialization from the X server's DDX drivers to the kernel
• Online Accounts Service Provides applications with credentials for user's online accounts listed on online.gnome.org or stored in GConf

F9 Features

Features that were completed in F9.

• Bluetooth Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements
• 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 man agement 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

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
• PulseAudio sound server, see Releases/FeaturePulseaudio
• CodecBuddy, see Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy
• PolicyKit, see Releases/FeaturePolicyKit
• 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
• NetworkManager by default, see Releases/FeatureNetworkManager
• Xulrunner, see Features/XULRunner
• 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
• 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 Beryl-Compiz merger will be available in the compiz-fusion package.

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