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Thunar 1.1.0 – Native support for remote filesystems

Congratulations to Jannis Pohlmann on the release of Thunar 1.1.0!  For those who don’t know, Thunar is the Xfce file manager, and this release marks a major milestone for Thunar and for the Xfce project.  Why is this release so noteworthy?  With this new version of Thunar, users will be able to access networked file [...]

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Xfce Documentation Licensing

Greetings!  I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers, and that things are progressing along smoothly with the 9.10 release cycle.  I want to share a brief note regarding Xfce documentation licensing with the hopes that others could provide some additional points for us to consider. Before I do that, though, let me pause to [...]

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Making Strides Toward Xubuntu 9.04

As I’m sure is the case with other Ubuntu-related development groups, the Xubuntu team has been quite active as of late.  We spent some time this weekend testing out configurations of system settings now that we have migrated to Xfce 4.6 for the 9.04 release, and have completed the transition to the new artwork for [...]

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Xfce 4.6 is released!

Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6! from          Stephan Arts <stephan@xfce.org> date    Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM subject    Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!! After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new [...]

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Xfce 4.4.3 in Xubuntu Intrepid

While it’s not exactly new news, nor is it as big of an update as having the final release of Xfce 4.6 available, the Xubuntu team has packaged Xfce 4.4.3 for the Ubuntu repositories, and the packages are available for Xubuntu 8.10 users who have backports enabled in their software source. To enable backports, go [...]

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