'community' Category
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Dec 06
2010Xfce 4.8pre2 released!
AdvertisementXfce 4.8pre2 is now available for download.
AdvertisementIt includes the following releases of Xfce core components:
Advertisementexo 0.5.5
gtk-xfce-engine 2.6.0
libxfce4ui 4.7.5
libxfce4util 4.7.4
libxfcegui4 4.7.0
thunar 1.1.5
thunar-vfs 1.1.1
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Nov 07
2010Xfce 4.8pre1 released!
Xfce 4.8pre1 is now available for download.
It includes the following releases of Xfce core components:
exo 0.5.4
gtk-xfce-engine 2.6.0
libxfce4ui 4.7.4
libxfce4util 4.7.3
libxfcegui4 4.7.0
thunar 1.1.4
thunar-vfs 1.1.1
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Jan 26
2010Xfce 4.8 Schedule Changes
As the Xfce release manager, I’d prefer to be the bringer of good news. Unfortunately, we have to make some adjustments with regards to the Xfce 4.8 release schedule.
You may well remember last year’s chaos with the 4.6 release date. …
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Jan 16
2010Thunar-volman and the deprecation of HAL in Xfce
Last week I started looking at thunar-volman (a program that performs certain actions when new devices are plugged in) with the goal to make it compatible with the latest release of thunar which uses GIO instead of ThunarVFS for almost everything t…
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Dec 01
2009Donations, FOSDEM
It’s been a while that I used PayPal for anything, so it came as a nice surprise that when I logged in yesterday I was presented with 60€ worth of donations for Thunar and Xfce as a whole. Thanks to Michael Gstettenbauer, James Wallen and A…
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Nov 30
2009Xubuntu Project Governance
As a part of my longer term strategy to help see the Xubuntu project become more self sufficient, I’m stepping down as the Project lead. In consideration of my current competing priorities, I feel this is a great time to allow someone else to have a go while I’m still around to lend a hand [...]
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Nov 01
2009New Personal Bugzilla Policy
I’m herewith announcing a new policy I’m going to follow when dealing with reports on bugzilla.xfce.org. This one goes out to all ignorant wise-asses among you claiming to be superior to us, thinking they are the center of the universe:…
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Sep 14
2009Design of the Thunar Progress Dialog
Today, I merged the shared progress dialog into Thunar. I can be seen on vimeo. This evening I started thinking about the waste of space in it. For each copy/move/link/delete/trash operation we have: one icon and two lines of text, followed by anot…
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Sep 13
2009Xfce 4.8 Release Cycle Information
At the end of August, we’ve entered the development phase for the Xfce
4.8 release cycle. Today, we’re hitting dependency freeze and I think
this is a good time to inform you about how the cycle will look like
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Sep 07
2009Long Overdue Update
I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’m not complaining. The last month I’ve been mostly busy pretending to be busy. Ok, to be honest, that’s not entirely true. Over at Xfce, we have achieved a lot in August:
We’ve moved all Xfce repositori…