release-notes/devel/en_US Desktop.xml,1.44,1.45
Murray McAllister (mdious)
fedora-docs-commits at redhat.com
Sat May 17 04:46:16 UTC 2008
Author: mdious
Update of /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv3710/en_US
Modified Files:
Desktop.xml
Log Message:
last zero-day web only updates
- new mail client section
- update adobe section
- updates to GNOME Display Manager
- updates to 10.3. PackageKit, 10.6.1. NSpluginwrapper
Index: Desktop.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US/Desktop.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.44
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -r1.44 -r1.45
--- Desktop.xml 6 May 2008 21:47:00 -0000 1.44
+++ Desktop.xml 17 May 2008 04:46:13 -0000 1.45
@@ -145,8 +145,25 @@
<ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewGdm">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewGdm</ulink>
</para>
<para>
- Note: <filename>~/.Xclients</filename> and <filename>~/.xsession</filename> are no longer read automatically at login time. If you use either of these files, install the <package>xorg-x11-xinit-session</package> package.
+ Other notes:
</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <filename>~/.Xclients</filename> and <filename>~/.xsession</filename> are no longer read automatically at login time. If you use either of these files, install the <package>xorg-x11-xinit-session</package> package.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Due to a bug introduced at the end of the development cycle (<ulink url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445631">bug 445631</ulink>), users will be unable to select their language the first time the login screen appears. Users should log in once, and then logout again to get language selection. Unfortunately, this bug also effects the LiveCD.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The shipped version of GDM does not support old style theme formats, and is considerably plainer than the version shipped in Fedora 8. A priority for Fedora 10 will be greeter aesthetics.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
@@ -403,6 +420,13 @@
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
+
+ <section id="notes-packagekit">
+ <title>PackageKit</title>
+ <para>
+ PackageKit is the new, default distribution-neutral package management framework and frontend. Refer to <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit" /> for further details.
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section id="sn-bluetooth">
<title>Bluetooth</title>
@@ -491,13 +515,13 @@
<title>Web Browsers</title>
<para>
- This release of Fedora includes version 3.0 of the popular
+ This release of Fedora includes version 3.0 (beta 5) of the popular
<application>Firefox</application> web browser. Refer to
<ulink
url="http://firefox.com/">http://firefox.com/</ulink>
for more information about Firefox. The
<package>nspluginwrapper</package> package is included by default
- even on 32-bit systems since it separates the plugins to run in
+ even on 32-bit systems since it separates the plug-ins to run in
their own address space, which increases security and reliability
of the browser.
</para>
@@ -510,6 +534,13 @@
<para>
<ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Firefox3">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Firefox3</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <section id="NSpluginwrapper">
+ <title>NSpluginwrapper</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>nspluginwrapper</package> is now installed by default, which makes web browser plug-ins run in a separate memory address. This increases browser stability, as plug-in crashes will not affect the web browser itself. As well, this increases security, as Fedora 9 has optional SELinux policies to sandbox plug-ins, to decrease the impact of security issues.
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section id="sn-Enabling-Flash-Plugin">
<title>Enabling Flash Plugin</title>
@@ -518,10 +549,12 @@
Fedora includes <package>swfdec</package> and
<package>gnash</package> , which are free and open source
implementations of Flash. We encourage you to try either or them
- before seeking out Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin software.
+ before seeking out Adobe's proprietary Flash Player plug-in software. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in uses a legacy sound framework that does not work correctly without additional support. Run the following command to enable this support:
</para>
-
- <para>
+<screen>
+su -c "yum install libflashsupport"
+</screen>
+ <para>
Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the
<package>nspluginwrapper.i386</package> package to enable the
32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64
@@ -570,6 +603,19 @@
</procedure>
</section>
</section>
+
+ <section id="sn-mail-clients">
+ <title>Mail Clients</title>
+ <para>
+ The <package>mail-notification</package> package has been split. The <application>Evolution</application> plug-in is now in a separate package, <package>mail-notification-evolution-plugin</package>. When the <package>mail-notification</package> package is updated, this plug-in is added automatically.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 9 includes <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> version 2.0, which has numerous performance improvements, folder viewing enhancements, and enhanced mail notification support. For further details, refer to the Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 release notes:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.0/releasenotes/" />
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section id="sn-DisablingPCSpeaker">
<title>Disabling PC Speaker</title>
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