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Dec
21st

Will LXDE continue to use transifex.net?

Author: brother | Files under syndicated

Maybe.
The recent weeks have been interesting in the world of online translation management as Transifex got promoted to 1.0. As we are one of the project using the hosted service at transifex.net since almost a year now it was with both joy and disappointment we read the changelog. While bringing many nice features and awesome [...]


Oct
16th

LXDE Buildbot!

Author: brother | Files under syndicated

A way to strengthen the qualityof your software is to test it as fast as possible with the needed code. For this purpose I just launched a buildbot master and slave running Debian testing. It is not automatically run against the code yet but I will include that functionality in the future. Having a buildbot [...]


Oct
6th

Desktop icons are now freely movable!

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

I just merged the latest movable desktop icon support to master branch.
So now it’s available in git repository. If you’re installing from git you’ll get it.
There are still some usability issues, but it mostly works quite well.
After two years, finally we have movable desktop icons. Really thank you all for the patience.
To test the latest [...]


Oct
5th

Desktop icons of PCManFM becomes movable!

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

I just did very primitive partial support for moving desktop icons.
Let’s see a screenshot.

Now the position of icons can be saved and restored, but there are sitll some bugs. As a proof of concept, however, it works already.
For the interested, the source code is in “move_icon” branch of our git repo.
So the desktop icons will become [...]


Sep
21st

A Status Matrix for LXDE Components

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

I just created a status matrix of LXDE components on our LXDE wiki. This matrix shows you the current status of every LXDE component. The content of this wiki is far from complete, but it’s just a start.
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Status_of_LXDE_Com…


Sep
21st

New Mailing List lxde-i18n for translators

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

In the past we used <translation@mailinglist.lxde.org> to coordinate translation work for LXDE. This mailing list server, however, suffers from unexpected downtime sometimes recently and has some maintaince issues. To eliminate the maintaince load and provide more stable service, we’re moving to a new mailing list hosted on sourceforge.net after some discussions. Since all other LXDE-related [...]


Aug
7th

LXAppearance – OpenBox Integration is Finished!

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

Since LXAppearance now supports plugins, it’s possible to add new features to it with third party plugins. Today I ported the GUI configuration tool for OpenBox obconf to LXAppearance. Now a plugin for seamless OpenBox integration is available.
A picture is worth a thousand words:

No additional dependencies are added to LXAppearance. You get this “Window Border” [...]


Aug
5th

LXAppearance becomes the most feature-rich Gnome-free gtk+ theme changer.

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

As stated in previous posts, LXAppearance is currently being rewritten. Today, the rewrite is finished.
Now LXAppearance becomes the most feature-rich Gnome-free gtk+ theme changer.
Let’s see a screenshot:
If the gtk+ theme you use supports color schemes, such as Clearlooks, you can customize these colors in LXAppearance, just like what you can do in gnome-appearance-properties.

Later, LXAppearance2  will [...]


Jul
30th

LXAppearance gets a rewrite, too!

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

While the rewrite of PCManFM/libfm is still in progress, another parts of LXDE requires more attention. So this week I did a rewrite/redesign for LXAppearance. The most notable change is the new cursor theme support. Let’s see some screenshots:

The main screen demostrating current GTK+ theme didn’t change much.

The icon theme choosing page now becomes cleaner.

Guess what? The [...]


Jul
4th

Direct UDisks support for libfm and pcmanfm is finished!

Author: PCMan | Files under syndicated

I just finished direct udisks support for libfm and pcmanfm. After days of testing, it works well. So it’s now merged back t master branch and will be available in next release of libfm.  Please help test it.
Nothing in pcmanfm need to be changed. You only need to update libfm and it works. Adventurous users are encouraged to [...]