Another website mockup
Benjamin Muskalla came up with another website mockup today. It's clean and simple (the side pane is a bit busy probably, but that could be optimized). The mockup is available here.
Continue readingMy window manager is faster than yours
Enlightenment's Carsten Haitzler (the rasterman) came up with a benchmark about 2 weeks ago, that was meant to measure the performance of today's most popular window managers for X11. Surprise, suprise, E17 is on top of both lists.
Continue readingJust another screenshot
Spent the day implementing additional parts of Thunar's core.
Continue readingWebsite mockups
Henrik Andersen and Nick Schermer came up with two mockups for a Thunar website: Henrik's mockup can be seen here, Nick's mockup is here.
Continue readingSpatial Thunar
I took the time and implemented parts of the core functionality for Thunar, as thunar-dev is pretty quiet when it comes to code-independent development. Below is a screenshot of the very first test application showing the some of the core classes in action - it's really spatial and it'll never be that spatial again. :-)
Continue readingProgress again
So, I'd say the "Shame on you, Benny"-debate is over and we're able to make progress again. At least, Jasper is requesting input. I'm going to prepare a small collection of diagrams with the most important stuff I've set up so far and that'll be the rough direction for the next weeks. While the lower-level stuff is mostly settled (the left-over stuff is mostly implementation specific), the high-level stuff is mostly undefined. E.g. somebody would have to work out a set of preferences that should be configurable for Thunar. For techies, there's the outstanding ThunarTrashFolder and ThunarTrashFile to define and implement (the latter is pretty simple, the most important thing here is to override the get_visible_name() method using the name set when trashing the file, but the former is really complex and care must be taken so the implementation does not result in something completly unmaintainable). There are a few more open issues (bookmarks, treepane, removable devices, ...), so people that complained previously should be able to get their hands dirty really soon (but as a limitation, developing on Thunar is not firing up vi and starting to write code).
Continue readingClearance
I don't want to stop work on Thunar - with the initial goals. I really like the idea of a simple file manager. The question is rather whether it fits with Xfce (or whether Xfce fits into the picture).
Continue readingEdscott about Thunar
Edscott sent some comments about Thunar development to thunar-dev today, with similar contents like a mail he sent me previously some time ago. It's seldomly the case in conversation with Edscott, but with these mails there's really nothing I could say against or in addition. He'll most probably be either flamed or ignored for his mail, tho.
Continue readingDevelopment continues
I decided that development on Thunar as part of Xfce will continue, but with some limitations, which will help to keep the fun with the project.
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