Xfce 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 Xfce, but haven’t been following the various blogs and lists, this is your chance to get caught up.
XWN – 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.
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!
Libxfcegui4 Xinerama support dropped
Since gtk+ now provides all required tools for dealing with Xinerama, I’ve removed my own implementation from libxfcegui4.
Both the taskbar and the panel have been changed to use GdkScreen.
PARTIAL_STRUT support in xfwm4
Hey, it’s been a while… Anyway, partial strut support in xfwm4 seems to be on its way, I should be able to commit something mostly working to CVS shortly. Stay tuned.
Still need to update libxfcegui4 API and implement partial strut in taskbar (could be pretty cool with the configurable taskbar width Benny has added some times ago)
Its late .. I should be in bed .. whatever
Hello fellow Xfce supporters ..
after a rather smooth saturday some movement on the cvs commits lists suddenly caught my attention. Turns out Danny was about to brake a few translations and xfdesktop ;-)
Nah .. obviously he was only fixing compiler warnings and thought he’d give the translations a try .. read that as _try_. I put everything back in place so xfdesktop’s German translation should be pretty much up to date now (for those among you who actually care about translations).
As for the progress on Xfce* .. xfdesktop is improving daily. We now have a configurable desktop menu including a shiny menu editor and icons everywhere (‘cept on the desktop). The panel developement got a bit stuck due to Jasper teaching at the university IIRC .. ah, and Olivier is doing his daily theme changes as usual. I really like the current default theme .. it even made me drop ‘preacher’ which I’ve used since about 2 month.
So .. what else is in the news .. ah, some minor backend tweaks by Brian and Benny including the integration of the menu editor backend. Nice stuff.
Did I mention that the taskbar from cvs has a right click menu? Its showing the usual xfwm right click popup for the selected task :)
So .. enough for this lousy “I write down my thoughts at 1:42 AM in the morning” poem, good night everyone …
Moe