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 ;-)
Ranting
Best rant about Eugenia’s fight with GNOME devs, I’ve read so far.
Better than Brians. And possibly even longer… ;-)
Edit:
Note that I don’t mean to say anything about what really happened and whether Eugenia or the GNOME devs or anyone else was right or wrong. This was just rather funny.
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.
Ha! Pirates.
Can’t stay behind now, can I? Gotta keep with the theme of the week…
Software patents :(
Quick summary:
- The (elected) European Parliament is opposed
- A large fraction of the (elected) national parliaments is opposed
- Danmark has officially requested the subject to be changed to a B-item (i.e. further discussion needed)
- The Danish request had support from several other representatives in the counsel
What to do, what to do?
The (non-elected) European Counsel decided to rubberstamp the decission as an A-item (political agreement, no discussion necessary). Right…
The reason given? We are adopting the position for institutional reasons so as not to create a precedent which might have a consequence of creating future delays in other processes. Bah.