3.1.1. PulseAudio flat volumes disabled
In the Fedora 24 release, PulseAudio's standard flat volume configuration has been disabled. This disablement means the system volume no longer scales with the loudest application.
Previously, it was possible for an application to set its volume to 100% on launch. This could potentially cause volumes to become suddenly loud, which poses a risk to users or their speakers or other hardware. The tradeoff for disabling this feature is that users may need to manually manage their application sound volumes more often. However, this behavior is in line with many other Linux distributions. The upstream PulseAudio, freedesktop.org, GNOME, and other communities are discussing new ways to mitigate this issue in future.
Fedora 24 includes the latest version of the
GNOME desktop. GNOME 3.20 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. Version 3.20 contains some major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. Some of the exciting new features are:
Photos can edit and export photos! You can edit a photo and your original file will be unmodified. You can also export different sized files for uploading, web hosting, or any reason you need to optimize the exported file size.
Short Cut Windows: By pressing CTRL + ? or CTRL + F1 launches a graphical window of all the different GNOME Shortcuts available. Many applications have Short Cut Windows available. Some of them are: Videos, Files, Photos, and gedit.
Media Controls integration into the Notification area. Controls for media playback can be accessed in the notification area. This will make controlling media faster and more streamlined. This feature will work with a large range of devices and uses the MPRIS standard.
Many users run Qt applications in Fedora Workstation. By default, the Qt applications' interface settings are not very consistent with those of the GTK applications. Fedora 24 introduces QGnomePlatform, a Qt Platform Theme that aims to take as many of the GNOME settings as possible and apply them directly to Qt applications, thus enabling the Qt applications to fit more consistently into the GNOME Desktop.
More information about QGnomePlatform can be found on the project's
GitHub pages.