pyxfce
Well well … today I got pyxfce (python bindings for xfce) working for the first time. The initmodule looks like the most evil hack of a long time, but hey :P
Seems that most of the panel stuff was not detected correctly by the automatic codegenerator h2def. Need to code that manually. Or wait for jasper to gobjectize everything, whatever comes first.
I had some trouble with h2def expecting gobject-enums everywhere, but since ours aren’t (ours are just regular C enums) it doesnt work. After some egrep it seems fine …
Need to find out how to get the generator to find classes in other modules in the same directory. Now I get messages like ‘Could not write constructor for NetkPager: No ArgType for ‘NetkScreen*’
‘ and such kind of gibberish. Ow well… it will be defeated, eventually.
pirate name
Now for my pirate name :)
Quite unexpected, to me, at least :)
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 ;-)