Marihela Xfwm theme
I relooked a little bit the Moheli theme with some ideas that throwed my head.
You can go to my gallery, the last screenshots are the most recents. Pick this one.
Dwarf GTK+ theme for Xfce
I was using the Xfce-stellar theme for quite more than a week now. Today I renewed that theme by using the most recent features from the Xfce GTK+ engine like gradients and borders for menu items.It was an easy hack since both the Xfce-stellar theme and the new default for Xfce are really clean. I mostly changed colors and some other misty stuff. I choosed the name Dwarf, coming from the White Dwarf, since it has a direct relation to Stellar. If you like the next screenshot you can download the theme here: Dwarf.tar.gz.
Edit: I have done some updates while I was travelling by train. There is a gallery with several screenshots and the tarball has been updated too.
Back from CeBIT marathon
I just came back from my CeBIT marathon (i mean my one day trip to CeBIT). The first word that comes into my mind after visiting CeBIT is “_HUGE_”. This event takes place into around 23 showrooms, each of them big enough to host an entire commercial aircraft. I have been walking all day long (including a 6km long walk just for the trip to the nearest Burger King) and i’m exhausted now.
I dropped by the GNOME and KDE booth and was a bit deceived. In comparison with the other booths, these ones were pretty small and without any attractive posters, sport car :p or whatever. But I took some pictures of the suggestion board that had some interesting notes :D.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t meet with Jens because he was working today. May be next time.
Xfce and Choice
Since my last entry, a several important things happened. A number of users and developers chose to engage in a flamewar on the mailing lists. A few developers chose to leave. Many chose to just ignore the problems and focus on their work. Meanwhile, the council has chosen to start doing something about it. Since that last entry ("It's not about choice"), many things have happened. Well, we're Gentoo. We're flexible. We choose when to do things and when to do nothing. We'll adapt, and hopefully we'll weather the storm.
This weekend I chose (there's that word again) to update my Xfce Guide for 4.4, which is now being stabilized. Kudos to the arch teams and the xfce team; you guys rock!
You'll find new package suggestions, new descriptions, tips, links, and even a chapter on migrating from 4.2 to 4.4.
Now, you can choose (that was the last one, I promise) to do many things, but I hope you'll choose (okay, maybe not; I'm such a tease) to read the updated guide and try out Xfce 4.4 yourself.
And now, I choose to go to bed, since the PST to PDT change means the clock just struck 3AM.
Edit: Who's this joker over here? Who chose to write up that kind of wackiness?!?
Xfce and Choice
Since my last entry, a several important things happened. A number of users and developers chose to engage in a flamewar on the mailing lists. A few developers chose to leave. Many chose to just ignore the problems and focus on their work. Meanwhile, the council has chosen to start doing something about it. Since that last entry ("It's not about choice"), many things have happened. Well, we're Gentoo. We're flexible. We choose when to do things and when to do nothing. We'll adapt, and hopefully we'll weather the storm.
This weekend I chose (there's that word again) to update my Xfce Guide for 4.4, which is now being stabilized. Kudos to the arch teams and the xfce team; you guys rock!
You'll find new package suggestions, new descriptions, tips, links, and even a chapter on migrating from 4.2 to 4.4.
Now, you can choose (that was the last one, I promise) to do many things, but I hope you'll choose (okay, maybe not; I'm such a tease) to read the updated guide and try out Xfce 4.4 yourself.
And now, I choose to go to bed, since the PST to PDT change means the clock just struck 3AM.
Edit: Who's this joker over here? Who chose to write up that kind of wackiness?!?
Bugzilla Permissions
Finally! I can’t wait until 3.0 final (or, rather, 3.0.1 or 3.0.2) is released. It’ll be nice to be able to properly restrict permissions on b.x.o.
Xfce 4.4.0 Released!
This is just a copy and paste of my /. story submission, but whatever:
After more than two years since our previous stable feature release, the Xfce Team is proud to announce the release of Xfce 4.4.0. This release features our new file manager, Thunar, as well as many improvements and feature additions to Xfce’s core components.
Head over to our brand-new website and take a look at our visual tour, or go straight to the downloads.
Xfce goodness
I added my new Xfce Configuration Guide to our documentation repository tonight. I hope it'll get some of you to try out the wonderful creamy goodness that is Xfce. 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml
* It might take an hour or two to show up; the mirrors have to finish syncing first.
Xfce goodness
I added my new Xfce Configuration Guide to our documentation repository tonight. I hope it'll get some of you to try out the wonderful creamy goodness that is Xfce. 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml
* It might take an hour or two to show up; the mirrors have to finish syncing first.
A new year means new things
...And part of those new things include:
Time for a status update from my last post!
I finished editing flameeyes' autoepatch documents, just before he sent in his retirement announcement (it's still a ways off, though), and before all his troubles with the stupid BSD-4 licence.
Added random bits and fixes to several docs, including a blurb about branding to the Gnome Guide, prompted this forum topic.
Only the first few items on my TODO list have changed from my previous post:
1) VDR guide updates and autoepatch: Done. Massively overhauled the provided patch (Englishification!), and finished Diego's stuff thus far.
2) Other assigned bugs: Much more progress. I got vivo to send in some patches for some ancient mysql docs bugs just before his retirement, so I closed those old bugs. Love closing old bugs! I've thought of a few more things to do on the pcmciautils migration guide, so I'll get those in and email brix for feedback.
3) Ebuilds: Got some help from Diego on this in exchange for the autoepatch docs. 
Some progress.
5) SwifT's alternative handbook: added some more tidbits. Ended up using some material I recently added for...
X) Forgot to add this to the last post, but one thing I suddenly decided to do a few days ago was write an Xfce Guide similar to the Gnome/KDE/Fluxbox guides already available. Something randomly clicked in my mind: we've a huge hole in the docs! I love and use Xfce (4.4-rc2, even) on my laptop! I should write something! Originally I'd meant to have it done over the next few months, to coincide with an upstream release, but...
So it took me all day today (since I was sidetracked for a good 7 hours), but I finally cranked out an Xfce Configuration Guide. It's the first all-new standalone guide I've written in awhile. It's much longer than what you'd expect for a guide on a lightweight desktop, because my approach was threefold.
First, I wanted to show how to install & configure a basic, minimal Xfce, and second, I wanted to show how to go beyond that and create a powerful, full-featured desktop environment that still adheres to the Xfce principles: fast, lightweight, configurable, and modular. Finally, I wanted to write a forward-thinking guide. Xfce-4.4 will hit final release sometime in the coming few months, and eventually the stable Portage tree. Therefore, I tried to write it in a way that's immediately accessible and practical to those who will be installing 4.2 (currently stable), as well as requiring minimal rewriting once 4.4 and all its huge changes hit Portage. To that end, I think I've succeeded. I'm hoping that this will be a real resource to all the folks that come to the forums asking "which one?" and "what should I run on this old hardware?"
I did quite a bit of research these subjects, examining not only the applications used on my (quite underpowered) old laptop, but also what the forumites were suggesting. Alas, many of the threads were quite old (2005), and most packages were no longer available -- a good example would be any gtk-1 apps, such as webbrowsers and email clients -- or too heavyweight to warrant consideration. Firefox and firefox-bin are the heaviest packages by far recommended in the guide, and even they run nicely on 128MB memory, a slow hard disk, and abysmal system I/O.
On a final note, my ISP has been completely sucking tonight. Internet availability has been terribly spotty. It's making it impossible to shop online for a headset for Skype. I got my first taste of Skype a few days ago, though it was only listening in to a few of my fellow devs; I had to use IRC to talk. That was pretty cumbersome, but now I feel the pull of Skype...must use it! It's so much more fun to hang out with the guys in #-dev via VoIP.