Project News & Status Updates
Here’s a somewhat quick run-down of some projects with-which I’ll be participating, and some other projects that, while I might not be a direct participant, I am curious to watch develop. Xfce Updates I see the LXDE project get a good amount of attention lately, in large part (I think) because it uses somewhat less [...]
Thunar 1.1.0 – Native support for remote filesystems
Update: The updated version of Thunar with network share support will be included as part of Xfce 4.8, sure to be featured by all of the distributions that ship Xfce (e.g., Fedora 15, Xubuntu 11.04, OpenSUSE 11.4, and many others). Congratulations to Jannis Pohlmann on the release of Thunar 1.1.0! For those who don’t know, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
