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LXPanel 0.4 and menu-cache 0.2.4 released

Hi all, here comes the latest release of LXPanel – version 0.4.

LXPanel 0.4 screenshot

LXPanel 0.4 screenshot

First I’d like to say sorry because this is not a bug-free release.
Some existing problems are not completely solved yet, but most of the bugs causing crashes were fixed. However, we feel it’s right time to have a new release. The menu-cache library is now stable enough for extensive use in LXDE. This will give us a enhanced and faster application menu and lxlauncher. Later, the lib will be used by pcmanfm, too.

The new features and some important bug fixes really deserves a new release of lxpanel.
So here comes version 0.4.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180858

To use LXPanel 0.4, you’ll also need following packages:
* menu-cache (lib used to parse freedesktop.org menu file and generate menu)
* lxmenu-data (data files used to generate application menu)

What’s new:
* A whole new application menu generated according to freedesktop.org menu spec.
(faster and more standard-compliant. has tooltips for menu items)
* Enhanced “Run” dialog.
* Auto-resize of application launcher buttons when panel size gets changed.
* Some important critical bug fixes.
* The problematic netstat plugin is now turned off by default. It will be moved to a separate project later.
* Building dynamic panel plugins outside the source tree of lxpanel is now possible.
* and more…

Some bugs are not yet fixed and we know that. We’ll do our best to fixed them later.

Comments 7

  1. q wrote:

    Why it isn’t working?

    q@incoming:~/tmp/menu-cache-0.2.4$ ./configure
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/menu-cache-0.2.4$ sudo make
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/menu-cache-0.2.4$ sudo make install
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/menu-cache-0.2.4$ cd ../lxpanel-0.4.0/
    q@incoming:~/tmp/lxpanel-0.4.0$ ./configure
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/lxpanel-0.4.0$ sudo make
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/lxpanel-0.4.0$ sudo make install
    (…)
    q@incoming:~/tmp/lxpanel-0.4.0$ lxpanel
    lxpanel: error while loading shared libraries: libmenu-cache.so.0: cannot openshared object file: No such file or directory

    (outputs: http://rafb.net/p/MAbvhh15.html )

    Posted 20 Apr 2009 at 8:54 pm
  2. guolinux wrote:

    Good Job!

    Posted 21 Apr 2009 at 12:52 am
  3. Roland wrote:

    Hello!
    I also had problem with error while loading shared libraries: libmenu-cache.so.0

    I solved it, by coping (…)/menu-cache-0.2.4/libmenu-cache/.libs/libmenu-cache.so.0.0.0
    to /usr/lib/libmenu-cache.so.0

    To authors: When I clicked on menu there are just two rows: Run and Logout

    Looks like menu didn’t create from *.desktop files in application folders.

    How can I solved it?

    Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 12:25 pm
  4. Luigi wrote:

    Why no implement autohide capacity?

    Posted 28 Apr 2009 at 10:58 pm
  5. zekrioca wrote:

    some menu aren’t displayed.. I did what Roland said, but i am having the same problems as him…

    Why doesn’t say what we really have to do before releasing a new version? I dont know…

    Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 7:14 pm
  6. Brian Zou wrote:

    Support FreeBSD?

    Posted 30 Apr 2009 at 3:09 am
  7. Francisco wrote:

    Since I can do to personalize to the menu and to translate it into the Spanish language.

    Posted 09 May 2009 at 4:17 pm