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[[sect-desktop]]
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= Desktop
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+ == Firefox now uses the Wayland back end in GNOME
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+ In the GNOME Wayland session, Firefox now uses the native Wayland display back end by default. The benefits of the native Wayland back end are:
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+ * Faster user interface
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+ * Better support for HiDPI displays, respecting the desktop scale factor
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+ * Smoother font rendering
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+ This change affects Firefox only in the GNOME Wayland session. In all other environments, Firefox still uses the X11 or XWayland back end. This includes:
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+ * The GNOME X11 session
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+ * The KDE Plasma desktop environment, both the Wayland and X11 session
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+ * All other Wayland or X11 desktop environments and window managers
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+ Note that the Adobe Flash plug-in does not work in the Wayland back end.
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+ If you need to use Adobe Flash or Firefox with the X11 back end on GNOME Wayland, install the `firefox-x11` package.
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+ == Qt applications now use the Wayland back end on GNOME
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+ Applications with a Qt user interface now use the native Wayland display back end in the GNOME Wayland session. Qt applications in other Wayland environments have already used the native Wayland back end since the previous Fedora release.
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+ The benefits of the native Wayland back end are:
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+ * Faster user interface
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+ * Better support for HiDPI displays, respecting the desktop scale factor
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+ * Smoother font rendering
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+ == Xfce has been updated to 4.14
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+ The Xfce desktop environment has been updated to the latest upstream version, 4.14.
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+ The changes in this release include:
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+ * The desktop environment has been ported to the GTK 3 toolkit. GTK 3 applications are now better integrated in Xfce.
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+ * The `xfwm4` window manager now supports HiDPI displays and the VSync feature.
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+ * The Xfce settings provide a new dialog for managing color profiles. This enables color-managed printing and scanning and monitor color profiles.
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+ * The display settings now support saving and restoring multi-display configurations.
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+ * The session manager now supports hybrid sleep.
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+ * The notification service can now log notifications, and supports Do Not Disturb mode.
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+ * A new screensaver integrated with Xfce has been introduced. The screensaver replaces the XScreenSaver application.
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+ For a more complete list of news in this release, see link:https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000[].
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+ == Noto fonts are now variable by default
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+ The Noto font family is designed to cover all languages defined in the Unicode standard. It is currently the default font family for the Sinhala language in Fedora.
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+ With this release, the Noto fonts switch to using the variable version by default. Variable fonts encode multiple font variations in a single OpenType font (OTF) file. As a result, the variable fonts have the following advantages:
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+ * They significantly save disk space.
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+ * They enable applications that support OTF to provide font variation options in the user interface.
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In this PR, I'll be adding all release notes assigned to me.