This is a historic milestone for PCManFM and libfm. For some things you have waited years to get there, for other things it’s only been 10 months (since last release) but we can now bring you a MAJOR (really!) update. Mainly thanks to the work done by Andriy lately but ofc building on top of [...]
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PCManFM 0.9.9 released! libfm 0.1.16 released!
PCManFM, the default file manager of LXDE, just got a new release. This application need libfm 0.1.16 to work and incidently that is also released today!
PCManFM has seen some significant improvements since the last release back in October 2010. Probably the most notable UI change is the reintroducation of the tree view in side pane [...]
openSUSE-LXDE development status
Ok people… openSUSE 11.3 Milestone2 has been released and quite soon we will have the Milestone3.
So now, after lot’s of promises, what is the status now?
IT’S DONE!
yes… it’s done… openSUSE 11.3 allow now to install LXDE directly from installation DVD or Net install. I’m sure all of you reading this post wants to try it, [...]
LXApperance 0.4.0 out now!
Back from holidays and vacations for a large part of the world we now present the latest component update being LXApperance. Download it at Sourceforge.net.
These are the changes in this release:
Replace all Glade-generated code with GtkBuilder
Use icon names defined in newer icon naming spec.
UI adjustment
Fix memory leaks and compiler warnings.
Translation update (23 languages completed)
Current status of libfm and PCManFM
As usual, let’s begin with the latest screenshot.
Some highlights:
The side pane now correctly display volumes.
Mounting of removable devices now works out of the box. Just click on them in the side pane.
Bookmark items in the side pane are now correctly updated whtn your gtk+ bookmarks got changed by other applications.
Some bugs have been fixed.
Some notes [...]
Recent Development Status of LXNM
LXNM (Lightweight Network Manager) is working now after a long time for development. If you often check the news of SVN, you can notice that the next generation of LXNM has already supported wireless connection setting, also it has many feature as old version of LXNM. The new implementation and protocol defination seems to work [...]
LXPanel 0.5.1 is released.
Soon after Marty Jack released LXPanel 0.5.0, I made some minor enhancements and here comes LXPanel 0.5.1.
Changes:
The “Run” dialog no longer hangs. Now it’s showed immediately when you open it. Available commands for auto-completion is loaded in background with multi-threading.
Restore the old behavior of taskbar in earlier versions: Taskbar button for the currently focused window [...]
LXNM current status and the plan in the future
Next generation of LXNM (Lightweight Network Manager) is still under development right now, You guys can see the prototype which was implemented in SVN already. In the future, LXNM will provide some programs includes lxnm daemon, utility which is a command line program to make control of all kind of networking devices be unified into [...]
xkb: New Applet for LXPanel
PCMan has added a new branch named lxpanel-xkb in the LXDE Repository.
svn co https://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lxde/branches/lxpanel-xkb
It’s a new applet for lxpanel which will be a keyboard layout switcher. The original one in lxpanel is broken, and will be removed. The new one will be based on libxlavier, a good library handling xkb. However, we’re from Taiwan, and [...]
Please vote for the future of PCManFM.
Please visit the following URL to vote for the future of PCManFM.
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=456
Hi, all LXDE users,
After more than two years of development, now LXDE became very active and more and more mature.
Recently, some developers joined us, and many new changes were made in our svn repository.
However, the core and the origin of the desktop, the file [...]
