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 [...]
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LXDE core member Chris Wickert for Fedora Engeneering Steering Committee
Please support LXDE and vote for our core member Chris Wickert in the elections of the Fedora Engeneering Steering Committee.
Christoph is the maintainer of Xfce and LXDE in Fedora. A vote for Chris is a vote for lightweight desktops in Fedora.
His goals are to make Fedora more lightweight and less ressource hungry as well as [...]
Next generation PCManFM is now under development!
Everybody loves screenshots!
This is the little demo program included in libfm demonstrating the functionality of libfm – the core of next generation PCManFM.
Due to some limitations and various hard-to-fix problems in the original PCManFM, a new project is started to work on a fresh rewrite of PCManFM. Now I’ve created a project named libfm. It’s [...]
LXDE start pages in Portuguese
The LXDE.org start pages are now available in Portuguese thanks to Henrique P. Machado (zehrique) from Brazil who has translated the content. The set up of the language was done together with Mwei from Taiwan. We welcome contributors who are interested in having the LXDE start pages in their language. Please contact us through the [...]
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 [...]
If you don’t like to be forced to use gnome standards, please join xdg mailing list.
The current standard/specifications followed by most of the major UNIX desktop enviromnents, such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and ROX, is called freedesktop.org. See http://www.freedesktop.org/ for detail.
Freedesktop.org is formed by a group of developers. Developers duscusses on the so called ‘xdg’ mailing list to come up with some specs which will be followed by major [...]
PCManFM: OpenSolaris distribution Milax with LXDE component
The first LXDE component has been included in an OpenSolaris distribution. Milax includes PCMan File Manager in its new release. The LXDE/OpenSolaris project was started last year. Alfred Peng from China is responsible for porting LXDE components to OpenSolaris.
Links:
* http://www.milax.org/?p=218
* PCManFM http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM
* http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/lxde/
* http://wiki.lxde.org/en/OpenSolaris
Nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009
Please nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009 till May 29, 2009.
LXDE was started already in 2005 in Taiwan and has spread all over the world. During the last year the project made big advances. New components have been added and older ones were updated. We have formed a viable translation project with people [...]
Improving the translations workflow with Transifex
Roughly about a month ago Martin Bagge mentioned that we were researching the possibility of using Transifex as a translation platform for all of the LXDE components. That is not to say that our Pootle server won’t be around, but we felt that our translators could benefit from a few handy features that Transifex has [...]
GPicView 0.2 beta is coming with GIF animation support!
Finally, we have yet another new release of GPicView.
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/GPicView
Really glad to announce the upcoming release of gpicview 0.2.
With the help from Marty Jack and Louis Casillas, some new features are added.
* GIF animation support!!
* Save jpeg and png files with different compression ratio.
* Background color can be freely changed.
* Some bug fixes.
* UI polishing.
* New [...]
