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| == Major package changes ==
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| === man to man-db package exchange ===
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| The package '''man''' is substituted by package '''man-db''' which provides similar functionality:
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| man description: The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The
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| man system 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. Whatis searches its own database for a complete word.
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| 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.
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| == KDE SC 4.5 ==
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| 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.
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| === Background Components ===
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| Some of the enhancements to background components include:
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| * <code>Phonon</code>, the sound server for KDE applications, can now directly use the <code>PulseAudio</code> sound server.
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| * An enhanced memory-cache feature that helps to speed up different applications using the same resources (like icons).
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| * The <code>WebKit</code> 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.
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| === Plasma Workspaces ===
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| Some of the enhancements to the "Plasma" desktop and netbook workspaces include:
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| * 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.
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| * The <code>KWin</code> window manager features many improvements:
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| ** You can add or remove virtual desktops in the "Desktop Grid" view.
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| ** You can lay out your windows without overlap by using the window-tiling feature.
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| ** You can move windows by dragging any empty area in the window, rather than just the title bar.
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| * 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.
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| === Applications ===
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| Some of the enhancements to other applications in the Software Compilation include:
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * The '''Dolphin''' file manager, and other KDE components, offer better integration with semantic meta-data provided by the <code>Nepomuk Semantic Desktop</code>.
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| == LXDE ==
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| While the lxde-common package has not changed from F13 to F14 the following changes have been made:
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| * lxappearance, the "Look and feel" configuration was completely rewritten and now (version 0.5) supports many more features: setting mouse cursor themes, custom colors, icon sizes in menus/buttons, turning icons in menus/buttons on and off, enabling event sounds etc.
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| * the display manager lxdm has been updated to 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.
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| * lxterminal has been updated to 0.1.9 and now has new features like 'true' transparency for composite window managers.
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| == MeeGo ==
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| MeeGo Netbook UX 1.0 is available in Fedora 14.
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| The MeeGo™ Architecture is designed to support multiple platforms and usage models ranging from Netbooks and NetTops to Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and various embedded usage models, such as In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. MeeGo Netbook UX is built on the GNOME Mobile platform, extending and enriching it with new technologies like Clutter, GUPnP and libsocialweb. The MeeGo Netbook UX is the user environment that sits of top of Fedora and associated MeeGo core services. The netbook user interface and user interaction model for the target devices then is on top of that. The Fedora 14 implementation specifically targets the Netbook UX.
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| == Sugar ==
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| Fedora 14 includes the latest [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ 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.
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| 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.
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