'thunar' Category
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Sep 16
2009Thunar tips and tricks
I was recently reminded of two Thunar features which are useful and not very well known.
First, Thunar comes by default with a fancy mouse gesture feature. The mouse gestures must be done with a middle click, if you don’t have one, it can often b…
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Sep 14
2009Design of the Thunar Progress Dialog
Today, I merged the shared progress dialog into Thunar. I can be seen on vimeo. This evening I started thinking about the waste of space in it. For each copy/move/link/delete/trash operation we have: one icon and two lines of text, followed by anot…
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Sep 13
2009Xfce 4.8 Release Cycle Information
At the end of August, we’ve entered the development phase for the Xfce
4.8 release cycle. Today, we’re hitting dependency freeze and I think
this is a good time to inform you about how the cycle will look like
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Sep 07
2009Long Overdue Update
I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’m not complaining. The last month I’ve been mostly busy pretending to be busy. Ok, to be honest, that’s not entirely true. Over at Xfce, we have achieved a lot in August:
We’ve moved all Xfce repositori…
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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…
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May 01
2009Another Thunar/GIO Status Update
I’m more or less done with migrating the volume management code in Thunar to GIO. As of today there’s not a single reference to ThunarVfsVolume or ThunarVfsVolume manager in Thunar anymore. While that is pretty neat and another thing I can mark as …
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Apr 23
2009Thunar/GIO – Quick Status Report
I’ve started hacking on the migration of Thunar to GIO on April 9th. In about 61 commits, I’ve reduced the original number of ThunarVFS references in the Thunar source code dramatically. The most important and probably most time-consuming part of t…
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Apr 14
2009Xfce developers, Jannis Pohlmann
Jannis Pohlmann, one of the core Xfce developers, kindly accepted to answer my questions on his involvement in the Xfce project and his plans for Xfce 4.8. Thank you for the time you gave Jannis!
Could you please introduce yourself?
I’m Jannis,…