I just added support for menu-merging based on GtkUIManager to the ThunarView. This was the last step in the reordering of the view stuff. Now there are only a few other issues to address before Thunar can be imported into Xfce's SVN repository. Maybe we'll also release an early pre-alpha version as suggested by Botsie.
Continue readingI should have done this a long time ago already, but anyways, here's xfce4-dev-tools 4.3.0. Download locations and installation instructions are available at
Continue readingThe Xfce Developer Tools - xfce4-dev-tools for short - provide an easy way to handle the setup and maintaince of a projects build framework. They currently consist of a bunch of M4 macros for commonly used checks and the xdt-autogen script, which examines the projects configure.ac or configure.in file(s) and calls the appropriate autotools in the correct order.
Started to update the os-cillation Debian packages to 4.2.2. Ubuntu guys should sync these once done. Unfortunately that takes a lot of time. Need to reevaluate the idea of a Xfce debian team, so others can help in maintaining the packages. Shouldn't be a problem now that we have SVN setup on espresso with fine-grained access control. Need to discuss with Auke.
Continue readingVery good news. No software patents in the EU for now.
Continue readinguhm, I shouldn't be awake. Nah, whatever. Updated all packages to 4.2.2. Not sure about the xffm4 package, I think Edscott changed something, but I'm not in favour of figuring out what it was right now. The package looks ok in that xffm still starts. Drop me a note if something broke. Also noticed that Erik released mousepad 0.2.2 some time ago - why did nobody tell me? - and the mousepad package is also updated now. By the way, mousepad is really a very bad name. Try goggling for mousepad and you'll know why. ;-)
Mickael: Orage is a lot better than Xfcalendar. I never really liked that xf prefix (it's ok and maybe even necessary for core desktop services, but not really nice for general applications).
In reply to Christian's comment on my last blog entry:
Continue readingI just spent some time reading through the recent Why Linux won't work on the desktop and The Linux desktop of the future stuff. Just works(TM) seems to be the most important point today, and many projects claim to follow that idea. My experience is that most things just work if [long list of conditions skipped].
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