'thunar' Category
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Dec 05
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
xfce-utils 4.7.3
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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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Jul 17
2010Final exams, diplom thesis and thunar-volman
I guess it’s time for an update.
This week I passed the last of four final exams in computer science and human-computer interaction at my university. Not only am I pleased that nine months of learning are over; I am also blessed with excell…
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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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Nov 25
2009News From Busyland
This is just a short heads up concerning Tumbler. I just merged Philip’s last critical commit to complete support for specialized thumbnailer services into master. We’ll have to give this some testing but I’m quite optimistic that…
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Oct 29
2009Using Tumbler in Client Applications
Yesterday, Philip briefly wrote about Tumbler, the new D-Bus thumbnailing service that is going to be used on Xfce 4.8 and Maemo 6. Today, I’d like to explain how to use this service in client applications. Depending on the application type, the us…
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Sep 16
2009Thunar tips and tricks
I was recently reminded of two Thunar features which are useful and not very well known.
First, Thunar comes by default with a fancy mouse gesture feature. The mouse gestures must be done with a middle click, if you don’t have one, it can often b…
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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
and what we’re planning to achieve for…