Weekly News Late
Just a heads up. I’m preparing for the Carolina’s Psychology Conference as we speak, and it’s eating up all of my time and resources. If all goes well, expect the “weekly” news to be back on Monday.
Also, you can always email me at erikharrison AT gmail.com for requests or to drop me a line about any interesting Xfce related tidbits you may have.
Hey – I’m in LWN!
This is kinda cool. XWN is in the most recent free LWN, under the development section.
Pretty cool, eh?
Appfinder future
Hello Folks!!!
Let’s talk about Appfinder current status…
Actually Appfinder has been ported to a GTK Widget, embeddable into any application using Xfce libs.
It would be possibile to search, launch and view applications inside other applications…
This is useful for panel (for entries editing), xffm (for applications start) and for xfrun itself.
I’ve planned to merge Appfinder into subversion as it will become more stable than it is :-)
So ASAP! :-D
Cheers
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Eduard Roccatello
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Xfce 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.
Moving to subversion
So, for those who don’t follow xfce4-dev, we are in the process of moving to subversion. After an initial hiccup of broken png images all things seem to go well. Thanks Auke!
The anonymous access will most likely be done through http, but I don’t know exactly how yet. We’ll post updated instructions to the website soon.
Xfmedia is now also in the same repository and hopefully mousepad and perhaps thunar will follow. Our current idea is to eventually put all Xfce related code in this repository; that means moving oer the goodies from berlios. We’ll see about that later, I think.
Xfce Weekly News – March 14th through March 31st
Welcome to this week’s Xfce (bi)Weekly News, which I am now subtitling “XFW – Slightly Later, Every Week!” In this edition we see the first entry in what we hope to be a continuing series of short articles on the major new features and technologies in the coming 4.4 release of Xfce. This week, the mysterious and powerful “panel widget”.
Also, I would like to thank Francois Le Clainche for cleaning up the format of last week’s news. If you see Francois, buy him a beer, or whatever the cool kids drink these days.
On to the main event!
Ranting (2)
Here’s a reponse to all the noise, to try and get back to normal conversation: OSNews editorial. Great style, Eugenia.
Human communication is flawed and it takes courage to publicly accept part of the blame. Hopefully this unfortunate episode will lead to something good in the end ;-)
Xfce Weekly News – March 4th – March 13th 2005
Welcome to this week’s Xfce Weekly News. This week I’ll be adding links to the mailing lists where appropriate, for those of you who want to delve a little deeper. Also, I am going to start posting some of the interesting tidbits floating around in the commits list – yes, dear readers, I brave the commits list. So you don’t have to.
Of real people, belgian beer and sandals
So, FOSDEM is already over. Man, it was great! So good to finally meet the people I only know from email and IRC and to be able to connect the writings to a real person.
Friday I met up with Brian, Jens and Olivier and had something to eat. Olivier and me had ‘Waterzooi’ — we still live ;-) Brian kinda looked like a zombie, but that’s actually pretty good, considering he had been awake for 24 hours by that time.
Saturday morning started with skipping the first talk (wikipedia??) and instead we had coffee with the lunar / xfce group — 11 people (12 eventually), that’s a huge number for a small group like ours.
After that it was off to see and hear Richard Stallman speak. That was dissappointing. His arguments were not always convincing, but what was worse, he proved to be very rude when he couldn’t hear the questions. Oh, and Jean-François appears to have made a picture of FOSDEM staff trying to kill RMS. Or were they trying to cut his hair? Here it is.
Lunch in some restaurant down the street. Auke and Stacey go for ‘chicken’, the others prefer real food. François arrives and is hugged by Jaime. Repeatedly.
Olivier, JF and me go to the ddd talk (Auke claimed we needed it…), the others went to some clustering talk I believe. The talk by Andreas Zeller was very entertaining.
We lost the group and walked around looking for them for a while until François called and said they’d gone back to their hotel ;-) We went to Olivier’s hotel and discussed his presentation. Also had a look at the thin-client by HP using Xfce. Very nice.
Dinner at a restaurant where they gave us our own floor, played to most awful collection of music that you’ve ever heard, and which was outrageously expensive. But we had good fun ;) Auke did a speech like a real project leader. Although he may have tried to delegate it first…
Sunday, the people who could get up early enough went to see a talk about KDE by Mathias Ettrich. Very enjoyable. The colors of the projector where wrong though (no blue), so Olivier was a bit worried, but it turned out to be a configuration problem and was fixed when Olivier connected his own laptop.
Olivier’s talk was excellent. The demo of transparent windows was awesome, that must have impressed a few people. At the end there were some good questions … and there was one strange fellow who started a rant about wanting ‘normal’ configuration files that he could change from scripts or something instead of xml — we didn’t quite get what he meant, actually.
In the afternoon we had a small developer room to ourselves. There were some interested people besides our own group, so that was cool. I managed to scare half of them away with my talk about the panel. It wasn’t that bad, I thought… Here are the slides I used.
Brian did a talk about Xfmedia, which was pretty interesting and unsurprisingly ended with a lot of feature requests by us ;-)
Moritz showed us once again that we are missing out on real money because we don’t have a way to accept donations. He proposed to let Auke try and set-up a not-for-profit company to manage these things for Xfce, Lunar and possibly other projects as well. How could we disagree with that?
Auke then acted as a stand-in for benny and tried explain the design considerations for creating a simple file manager for Xfce. Even if not prepared properly, still a very enjoyable talk. Extra cool thing was that Alexander Larsson of Nautilus fame showed up and took part in the discussions. Thanks Alexander! I don’t think we have actually made up our minds about the design just yet…
I had a great time this weekend, thanks to everyone who was there. We have a great group of people, even in real life.
What’s that thing about sandals you say? Well, we were all kinda shocked that this crazy guy from California actually showed up in Brussels wearing sandals! It was snowing! I hope he didn’t catch a cold.
Let’s do this again some time.
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