Close to BETA1
We're close to Thunar BETA1, hopefully this weekend. So, time to share a few screenshots. The BETA1 includes a full-featured tree pane...
Continue readingTransparent Terminal Hack
This one was requested quite often lately, so here's a quick&dirty hack to make the Terminal transparent. The Terminal-side changes are pretty easy, just use ARGB visuals if possible. The VTE patch is really just a hack for the Xft backend with a hardcoded alpha value of 0xaaaa. You need to run a composition manager for this to work (i.e. xfwm4 with --compositor=on), and select solid background color in Terminal (as said, the VTE patch is just a really quick hack). The result is:
thunar-archive-plugin 0.1.0
I uploaded a first release of the thunar-archive-plugin, which currently integrates File Roller into Thunar (support for Xarchiver will be added once Xarchiver is ready). Check the website for download locations and instructions.
Continue readingThunar startup
I decided to do some profiling on Thunar startup to find out why it takes 2-3 seconds to popup here using the Gtk+ 2.8 port (while it starts up faster with the full debug build of Gtk+ 2.9). Using Federicos simple access() trick, I found out that the majority of time was spent in gtk_window_size_request() and gtk_window_realize().
What's next?
Thunar will enter beta phase soon, so I thought I'd share two additional screenshots of what's to come soon.
Continue readingThunar 0.2.2 and libexo 0.3.1.4 alpha2 releases
I just released Thunar-0.2.2alpha2 and libexo-0.3.1.4alpha2. As suggested by the name, it is an alpha release and it is thereby considered to be more or less stable in what it does, but it is by no means a final version.
Continue readingDesktop actions
I finally came around to fix some long standing issues with the internals of the file launching stuff in Thunar (to sum it up: it was a mess). Now it's cleaned up, and with the new classes it was actually too easy to add support for desktop actions (see the desktop file spec for details) to Thunar (Brian already added support to Xfmedia some time ago).
Continue readingThunar 0.2.0 and libexo 0.3.1.2 alpha releases
I just released Thunar-0.2.0alpha and libexo-0.3.1.2alpha. As the name suggests, it's an alpha release and it is thereby considered to be more or less stable in what it does, but it's by no means a final version.
Continue readingSome more screenshots
Long time no post. So, here's another bunch of random screenshots.
Continue readingJust another screenshot
Not much to say here, just more options available from the user interface:
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