Now that were two really busy months - april and may - for me (up to 300 hours each), and it was a necessary break from Xfce for me. Somehow I lost not only my interest in Xfce, but more important, it was no longer fun for me. To me it looked (and still looks) like Xfce development is going into the wrong direction. I'm not yet sure if and how I will continue my contribution to Xfce. I started to do some long standing stuff for libexo/thunar yesterday. But reading the last suggestions on thunar-dev made me think that there's no need for a simple file manager in Xfce. Maybe Xfce people should extend Xffm even more, rather than developing a second not-simple file manager.
So, CeBIT 2005 is over and - as usual - the result is: A lot of work. Very interesting work, tho. But it leaves me with no time for xfce (besides that, my energy level is near to zero when I return home). I don't even manage to read all my mail currently.
RedHat's Matthias Clasen came up with the idea of caching the MIME information provided by the Shared MIME database (the list of MIME type aliases, subclass information, the glob patterns, the magic patterns and the XML namespaces) in a mmapable file today. With his attempt, there'll be one cache file (mime.cache) per mime directory, e.g. on most Linux systems, this will be
Looks like Thunar does not attract software developers (yet), at least they did not respond to my last mail to thunar-dev. Somehow it looks like we got a bunch of users and hackers hanging around on the mailinglist and waiting for code or mockups to play with, which is fun of course; but we need more dev activitity on the dev mailinglist. ;-)
As the overall feedback on the Thunar suggestion was very positive, I think we are mostly settled with the user interface now. Only minor changes will happen on the user interface, no more major changes on the UI concept.
... my favourite Linux based operating system, Debian. The mighty and outstanding Debian people finally came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to release their software from time to time (sarge will become stable right after the Hurd 1.0 release). Oh, really. Why did noone think of this earlier?