Author: brother

  • Transifex is out

    Effective immediately we have stopped using Transifex.net for translating LXDE components. All translators and prospective translators inside the LXDE project have been informed about this move via the platform itself. We have removed the possibility to submit strings in the tool but unfortunately for people who have submitted stirngs there in spite of the earlier […]

  • Will LXDE continue to use transifex.net?

    UPDATE: We’ve dropped transifex by now. Maybe. The recent weeks have been interesting in the world of online translation management as Transifex got promoted to 1.0. As we are one of the project using the hosted service at transifex.net since almost a year now it was with both joy and disappointment we read the changelog. […]

  • LXDE Buildbot!

    A way to strengthen the qualityof your software is to test it as fast as possible with the needed code. For this purpose I just launched a buildbot master and slave running Debian testing. It is not automatically run against the code yet but I will include that functionality in the future. Having a buildbot […]

  • LXDE translation status

    During last year we had biweekly updates to the translation community and it was a great help but as our components got more and more completed in regards to translations and the supported languages we dropped those reports to do more targeted messages. Last week we updated all files and repositories to make the source […]

  • Dropping support for unmaintained languages

    This is a part of improving the quality of LXDE, we have alot of brilliant and dedicated translators working with keep the DE accessible in native tounge for alot of languages but some languages never took of or the translatro left or something and this renders more work for me. We have infrastructure for 48 […]

  • 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. […]

  • LXMusic 0.4.2 released!

    Today Jürgen Hötzel of the LXDE development team released an updated verison of LXMusic. Download it at sourceforge. The most important changes: fix all gcc compilation warnings LXMusic can be compiled using  CFLAGS “-Wall -Werror” on_playlist_content_received Request medialib info for whole playlist at once instead of requesting and updating each track successive. This improves speed […]

  • Fedora 12 LXDE Spin – Take two!

    Finally the hard working people over at the Fedora project have released a working Fedora 12 Spin featuring LXDE! Christoph has the complete story behind the delay, never mind that though and go grab your copy at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/ (in the last couple of hours 60 other downloads have already occured).

  • Serbian and (soon) Catalan translations added!

    LXDE пројекат је данас веома срећан да објави да је српски још један од подржаних језика у LXDE радном окружењу. Са српским преводом, број корисника које могу користити LXDE радно окружење на матерњем језику повећава за око 11 милиона!

  • If I had a XO as a child!?

    Visited the local post office earlier this week and collected a parcel from Berlin. Mario had sent me one OLPC XO courtsey of the LXDE Foundation. I will use it to participate in the LXDE based efforts for doing things for the OLPC project. The aims for the LXDE side of thing is to take […]