LXDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2010. We are looking forward to a great summer with more people joining development. Please propose ideas for the program on our idea page. Students wishing to apply, please check out the Student Check List in the wiki and join us on [...]
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LXMusic 0.4.3 released
LXMusic 0.4.3 was released by Jürgen Hötzel.
Most important changes include:
* Adopt XMMS2 DrNo 0.7 API changes
* Fix a double free (on_playback_track_loaded)
* Translation updates
Please help to advance LXDE development and test releases, help with translations and update the wiki.
Links:
* Git Repository: http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxmusic
* LXMusic in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic
* LXDE Translation Project: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Category:Translations
lubuntu – how to get involved
Julian Lavergne from France posted ways to get involved into lubuntu on the mailing list of the project and I am reposting his suggestions here.
This is a quick summarize for people wanted to help on Lubuntu. In general, all tasks will be documented on the Subteams pages:
Packages and Code: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/CodingAndPackagingSubTeam
Artwork : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/ArtworkSubTeam
Doc [...]
first lubuntu test iso available
The lubuntu project is advancing. lynxis just published a lubuntu test iso based on the seeds by David Sugar and additional patches. It is just 381 MB and a second one only 292 MB.
Please download the image and test it and give feedback:
http://lynxis.crew.c-base.org
UPDATE: The CD images from the link above are now unavailable due to [...]
Exciting improvements in libfm and PCMan File Manager
Recently libfm, the core of next generation file manager, underwent heavy development and rapid changes. Here are some exciting highlights.
The repository was completely moved from svn to git now.
You can grab the latest source code with following command line:
git clone git://libfm.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libfm
Drag and drop now works! You can even drag and drop between two different remote [...]
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 0.5.2
There is a new video on LXPanel 0.5.2 on Youtube. It introduces the new functions of LXPanel:
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKzwGg6Zqs
Maces Blog: http://www.maces-net.de/2009/08/06/new-video-on-lxpanel-0-5-2/
Recent Advancement on libfm (core of next generation pcmanfm).
Everybody loves screenshots!
Look! It’s sftp://.
By utilizing glib/gio and gvfs, now libfm can access remote filesystems supported by gvfs. Currently there is no auto-mounting. So when testing libfm, you need to mount the filesystems with gvfs-mount manually. However this should work once libfm is finished.
The current source code in svn repositoy can already work as a [...]
LXPanel 0.5.3
LXPanel 0.5.3 was released today. We are working toward alleviating the discomfort that some users feel with vertical panels as they exist in 0.5.x for use on smaller screens. Please feel free to discuss further.
General
A serious flaw that prevented vertical panels from honoring their configured size was corrected. With this fixed it is possible to [...]
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 [...]
