Branch 'f12' - en-US/Desktop.xml Makefile

Rüdiger Landmann rlandmann at fedoraproject.org
Sun Sep 13 22:36:58 UTC 2009


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 en-US/Desktop.xml |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit b21910ca58376d5b638e1f5351fd671075e95f51
Author: Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann at redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 14 08:36:12 2009 +1000

    Desktop

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b037084..208b5e0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SHOW_REMARKS=0
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+# OTHER_LANGS	= as-IN bn-IN ca-ES cs-CZ da-DK de-DE el-GR en-US es-ES fi-FI fr-FR gu-IN he-IL hi-IN hr-HR hu-HU id-ID it-IT ja-JP kn-IN ko-KR ml-IN mr-IN ms-MY nb-NO nl-NL or-IN pa-IN pl-PL pt-BR pt-PT ru-RU sk-SK sr-Latn-RS sr-RS sv-SE ta-IN te-IN uk-UA zh-CN zh-TW
 
 # > 7%
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diff --git a/en-US/Desktop.xml b/en-US/Desktop.xml
index e2a7d13..dd6281d 100644
--- a/en-US/Desktop.xml
+++ b/en-US/Desktop.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,51 @@
 			In the latest version of '''Xorg''' included in this release, if you have a dual monitor setup, your desktop display will span across them instead of using a cloned display by default. This matches the behaviour of other operating systems. 
 		</para>
 	</section>
+	
+	<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-Webcam">
+		<title>Better webcam support</title>
+
+		<para>
+			The better webcam support feature for Fedora 10 did much to improve webcam support in Linux. We now have a library (<application>libv4l</application>) for decompressing various proprietary video formats in user space, and almost all applications that use webcams have been patched to use this library.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>Fedora 12 contains a second push for better webcam support, comprising three pieces:
+		<itemizedlist>
+			<listitem><para>Lots of testing, fixing bugs, and improving of existing in-kernel drivers.</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>Add video processing to <application>libv4l</application> for better video quality for cams which lack any of the following in hardware:
+			<itemizedlist>
+				<listitem><para>White balancing</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>Gamma correction</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>Automatic adjustment of exposure (gain)</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>Recognize laptop cams which are known to be installed upside down and rotate the image 180 degrees in software</para></listitem>
+			</itemizedlist></para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>Clean up existing out-of-tree drivers, moving the decompression to <application>libv4l</application> where needed and merge them into the mainline, specifically the following ones:
+			<itemizedlist>
+				<listitem><para>qc-usb: stv0600 (and similar)-based cams, mainly Logitech QuickCam Express (done as of kernel 2.6.29)</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>ov51x-jpeg: ov511(+) and ov518(+) driver (done as of kernel 2.6.31rc1, libv4l-0.6.0)</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>qc-usb-messenger: st6422-based cams mainly Logitech QuickCam Messenger models (done as of kernel 2.6.31rc1)</para></listitem>
+				<listitem><para>sn9c20x: sn9c20x-based cams, many newer cheap cams (done as of kernel 2.6.31rc2)</para></listitem></itemizedlist></para></listitem>
+			</itemizedlist>
+		</para>
+	</section>
+	
+	<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-ABRT">
+		<title>ABRT</title>
+		<para>The <application>ABRT</application> automatic bug reporting tool replaces <application>bug-buddy</application> and <application>kerneloops</application> in the Fedora 12 desktop. <application>ABRT</application> has an extensible architecture and can not only catch and report segmentation faults and kernel oops, but also python backtraces. In contrast to <application>bug-buddy</application>, it can catch segmentation faults in any binary, not just GTK+ applications.</para>
+
+		<para>If you have manually modified the <application>GConf</application> settings for the <application>bug-buddy</application> GTK+ module before, you may see warning messages like the following from GTK+ applications:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
+libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
+directory</computeroutput></screen>
+
+
+		<para>To stop these messages, run the following command in a terminal in your session:</para>
+
+<screen><command>gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/gtk-modules/gnomebreakpad false</command></screen>
+
+
+	</section>
 
 	<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-GNOME">
 		<title>GNOME 2.28</title>
@@ -109,17 +154,15 @@
 <screen><command>gnome-shell --replace &</command></screen>
 			</para>
 		</section>
-
-
-
-
-
 	</section>
 	
 	<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop-KDE">
-		<title>KDE</title>
+		<title>KDE 4.3</title>
+		<para>
+			<application>KDE 4.3</application> is part of this release and is the default environment in the Fedora KDE Desktop Live image. The KDE Desktop Live image is a downloadable CD you can use to test the new KDE environment with or without installing it. You can write the image to a CD or to a USB flash drive.
+		</para>
 		<para>
-			What's new in KDE
+			<application>KDE 4.3</application> is the latest release of KDE 4, with many enhancements and new features. <application>Plasma</application> has a new <citetitle>Air</citetitle> look, improved job and notification management and fully-configurable keyboard shortcuts. There are also new <application>Plasma</application> widgets and existing ones are improved. <application>KWin</application> is optimized for performance and brings new desktop effects to KDE. KDE now contains a new bug reporting tool, making it easier to report bugs to the KDE developers. The <application>gstreamer Phonon</application> back end is now the default.
 		</para>
 	</section>
 





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