'Weekly News' Category
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Nov 07
2008Second beta, German translations, FOSDEM
Just in case some of you are wondering already – yes, we’re late with releasing the second beta of Xfce 4.6 by a few days. It’ll probably be released this weekend, so we won’t fall behind the schedule too much. On Wednesday we had a very productive IRC meeting with the most active German translators [...]
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Oct 02
2008News and Xubuntu HugDay
There are only ten days left until the first beta release of Xfce 4.6 and we still got a lot of things to do. Over the past week(s) we’ve been working on new features in xfwm4, xfce4-session and xfce4-appfinder mostly. Olivier added NET_WM_PING support to xfwm4. This means you can now kill applications which are [...]
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Sep 20
2008Weekly news? Nah.
Last weekend we finally released Pinkie. While the reactions on news sites and forums have been quite mixed (as expected) we surprisingly received some very positive feedback from GNOME for xfconf. To me this gives proof that we did the right thing for 4.6. When we discussed the original design proposal for a D-Bus based [...]
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Sep 18
2005Xfce News – September 10th through September 18th, 2005
Sunday, instead of Friday. Ah well.
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Sep 10
2005Xfce News, September 2nd through September 9th
Last week’s update seems to have generated a little attention. I’m flattered. The devs aren’t flattered, but that’s because they’re too busy writing 4.4. I also generated some anonymous criticism of my writing on OSNews. Which was probably warranted. Ah, well. I’ll never get that Linux Weekly News job now.
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Sep 03
2005Xfce News – From Then Till About Now
Let’s pretend the last several months haven’t happened, and I’ll pretend that more than three of you read this. That said, it seems like the best thing to do is to lay out where we are going, where we are, and what’s happening to get us there. If you care what’s been going on in [...]
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May 18
2005XWN for
MarchMay 5th, throughMarchMay 17th, 2005Welcome to the XWN, where piles of mailing list messages, IRC conversations, and Slashdot trolls are condensed down to something that almost resembles fun. (and where the W probably doesn’t stand for weekly anymore. Oh well).
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May 05
2005XWN – April 27th through May 4th, 2005
Slow week in Xfce land. But I don’t mind, makes my job easier. On to the main event.
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Apr 27
2005XWN for April 8th through April 26th, 2005
Here it is, a day and a half short of being two weeks late, the weekly news, as promised. Now perhaps Brian will leave me alone.
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Apr 08
2005Xfce Weekly News, April 1st through April 7th, 2005
This weeks XWN is brought to you (on time) by the letter “My Fiancee is Busy Tonight” and the number “Caffeine” Unfortunately, you will have to wait till next week for a “What’s New in 4.4″ article. Still, surprise and intrigue await.