'Xfce' Category

• Jan 17
  2012

  Xfce 4010 – (release-schedule and versioning)

  Hi all, There has been a lengthy discussion about the xfce version-number. Is it OK to call the next version of xfce 4.10? Some package maintainers have a problem with 4.10 being a later version then 4.8, since they see 4.10 as 4.1 with an extra decimal for precision. Since it could cause upgrade-problems for [...]

  posted in community, Development, releases, Xfce by Stephan Arts

• Jan 06
  2012

  Documentation Wiki

  Over the last years we’ve tried many techniques to make it easier to submit documentation for the Xfce packages. Unfortunately, whatever we’ve tried; hardly any documentation was contributed. Complete documentation (or close to that) was still a goal for Xfce 4.10, so we’ve decided to drop the package manuals for the next stable release (now [...]

  posted in community, Xfce by Nick

• Dec 22
  2011

  Xfce git modules

  I needed to update my scripts to checkout everything in the Xfce git repositories. I used to run something like ssh ls /var/git on mocha (our old git server) to get the list of modules, but now I have this: lynx -dump -listonly git.xfce.org \ | grep “git.xfce.org/[^?]” | grep -v “archive” \ | sed [...]

  posted in Xfce by Jasper Huijsmans

• Dec 08
  2011

  Looking for new maintainers for some of my projects

  I am looking for a new maintainer for some of the open source projects I started over the last couple of years. Due to taking a full-time position as a software engineer, I will have less spare time to hack in the near future than I had while being…

  posted in community, gstreamer, work, Xfce, xfce4-mixer by Jannis Pohlmann

• Dec 02
  2011

  Joining Codethink

  I already hinted at the end of my studies in earlier posts related to my thesis. After submitting that thesis I moved 400km south of Lübeck to enjoy a few quiet weeks, record music and work on Xfce. However, I only stayed there for two weeks befor…

  posted in studies, work, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Nov 15
  2011

  Learning from GNOME

  I just read an interview with Federico Mena-Quintero, which is a good read in its entirety, but one thing struck me as being a very important change to how GNOME is being developed. Federico says (emphasis mine): “The latest thing is that now things have to go through the design team first, and I don’t [...]

  posted in Xfce by Jasper Huijsmans

• Sep 28
  2011

  On MeeGo

  Whatever MeeGo was, it never made it into the open source mainstream, which I consider to consist of projects actively worked on by volunteers and companies alike, and didn’t manage to become an project attractive enough for individual open s…

  posted in community, Meego, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Aug 29
  2011

  Looking for a full time job in Open Source

  Two years ago I was really close to canceling my studies and looking for a job instead. In the end I continued studying, passed the final exams of my Diplom (the German old-school equivalent to a Master’s degree) with excellent results and st…

  posted in community, diplom, studies, university, work, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Aug 21
  2011

  Xfce 4.8 with Conky

  I have been following a short discussion on the IRC channel #xfce regarding an issue with the use of Conky and transparency. I didn’t use Conky for a very long time, but since I knew it was possible to have Conky perfectly running, I gave it a shot aga…

  posted in Tips, Xfce by Mike Massonnet

• Jul 23
  2011

  Xfce mailing lists moved

  The Xfce mailing lists moved from foo-projects.org and are now all hosted at mail.xfce.org. Mail addresses were not changed so nobody should experience problems with this, if you do please contact us at email hidden; JavaScript is required. We want to thank the foo-projects.org crew (yes you Auke) for excellent support in the last couple [...]

  posted in mailinglists, Xfce by Nick