'tumbler' Category
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Jul 17
2010Final exams, diplom thesis and thunar-volman
AdvertisementI guess it’s time for an update.
AdvertisementThis 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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Nov 25
2009News From Busyland
AdvertisementThis 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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Jun 16
2009Preview: Browsing SFTP with Thunar
It feels like I’m finally getting somewhere. My GIO migration branch of Thunar now generates thumbnails using the D-Bus service provided by Tumbler (which is still in development but almost ready for a release). It has no references to ThunarVFS an…
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Jun 11
2009Recently in Xfce
This is just a short post with what happened recently in Xfce.
Xfce4 Power Manager 0.8.0 was released. I did not have time yet to test it, but it looks promising.
Jannis Pohlmann and Stephan Arts drafted a release process for Xfce. It still needs… -
Jun 04
2009News Update
A lot of things are going on lately and it turns out I’m way to busy to update my weblog on a regular basis. So, this is just a short post to keep you all updated.
Last two weeks
I took a new student job at the university, at the Institute of T…