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 [...]
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Direct UDisks support for libfm and pcmanfm is finished!
Volume Management Without Gvfs is Possible Now!
As I stated in previous posts, I’m doing direct UDisks support for PCManFM/Libfm. Now I have some things to show.
It now correctly supports different kinds of devices without GVFS. However, LUCKS devices are not supported because I don’t know how to do it. In addition, I’m not sure if LVM or RAID are displayed in [...]
Direct UDisks Support Partially Works in Libfm
Let’s see the screenshot!
Volumes listed in left pane are handled by direct dbus calls to UDisks, not gvfs or gnome-disk-utility. The code in udisks branch is not finished yet, but I already had mounting and unmounting partially working.
Please stay tunned! Cheers!
Recent LXDE Progress
Here are some updates on recent LXDE progress.
The file manager has much exciting progress:
I”m now doing “direct” udisks support without gvfs or gnome-disk-utility. So far the progress is good and it already can listed volumes. Mounting and unmounting should be available soon. This enables volume management totally without gvfs. You can test the source code [...]
Have trouble with PCManFM 0.9.x? Read this FAQ!
After the release of the so-called RC1 (actually 0.9.7) of PCManFM, I got some bug reports, which are not bugs.
Please, read this document before you submitting a bug report. At least packagers need to read this before packaging. Otherwise you’ll end up with something that never works. This guide is very complete and it contains [...]
PCManFM 0.9.7 + libfm 0.1.12 (RC1)
The new file manager, next generation of PCManFM, is now entering RC1 (release candidate for 1.0).
Most of the bugs in pcmanfm bug tracker are cleared and the stability is quite good. As we are now in feature-freeze, no new features are added and this is a major bug fix release.
Please get it heavily tested. If [...]
Updated roadmap of new PCManFM
As the development of next generation PCManFM continues, there are many questions from the community and there is even some FUD regarding to comparison with previous 0.5 series. It’s time to have an more clear and updated roadmap.
Volume management: Currently, gvfs is used for this, but this dependency is temporary and it will be changed [...]
Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 is Released
The lead developer of Lubuntu, an Ubuntu variant featuring LXDE, Julien Lavergne just announced the availability of Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. Here is his release note on the mailing list:
Hi,
The Lubuntu Lucid Beta 2 is now available. Don’t forget that it’s build
with Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) which is still in Beta state of development,
so same warnings [...]
Important Updates for Google Summer of Code
Hi all potential students,
Since most of the previously proposed items are not suitable for Google SoC because they are not challenging enough, I rewrite the whole page and list some real projects which can be done for the whole summer. Some of previously proposed items are too easy and some can even be done within [...]
Make conky work with LXDE desktop manager.
It’s reported by many users that conky doesn’t work with desktop management provided by PCManFM. Personally I do not use Conky, but many of our users use it. I’ve been seeking for a solution for our users but didn’t find one. Recently I saw a blog post containing a screenshot with working conky + pcmanfm. [...]
