In the past we used <translation@mailinglist.lxde.org> to coordinate translation work for LXDE. This mailing list server, however, suffers from unexpected downtime sometimes recently and has some maintaince issues. To eliminate the maintaince load and provide more stable service, we’re moving to a new mailing list hosted on sourceforge.net after some discussions. Since all other LXDE-related […]

Since LXAppearance now supports plugins, it’s possible to add new features to it with third party plugins. Today I ported the GUI configuration tool for OpenBox obconf to LXAppearance. Now a plugin for seamless OpenBox integration is available. A picture is worth a thousand words: No additional dependencies are added to LXAppearance. You get this […]

As stated in previous posts, LXAppearance is currently being rewritten. Today, the rewrite is finished. Now LXAppearance becomes the most feature-rich Gnome-free gtk+ theme changer. Let’s see a screenshot: If the gtk+ theme you use supports color schemes, such as Clearlooks, you can customize these colors in LXAppearance, just like what you can do in […]

While the rewrite of PCManFM/libfm is still in progress, another parts of LXDE requires more attention. So this week I did a rewrite/redesign for LXAppearance. The most notable change is the new cursor theme support. Let’s see some screenshots: The main screen demostrating current GTK+ theme didn’t change much. The icon theme choosing page now becomes cleaner. […]

I just finished direct udisks support for libfm and pcmanfm. After days of testing, it works well. So it’s now merged back t master branch and will be available in next release of libfm.  Please help test it. Nothing in pcmanfm need to be changed. You only need to update libfm and it works. Adventurous users are encouraged […]

Let’s see the screenshot! Volumes listed in left pane are handled by direct dbus calls to UDisks, not gvfs or gnome-disk-utility. The code in udisks branch is not finished yet, but I already had mounting and unmounting partially working. Please stay tunned! Cheers!

Here are some updates on recent LXDE progress. The file manager has much exciting progress: I”m now doing “direct” udisks support without gvfs or gnome-disk-utility. So far the progress is good and it already can listed volumes. Mounting and unmounting should be available soon. This enables volume management totally without gvfs. You can test the […]

After the release of the so-called RC1 (actually 0.9.7) of PCManFM, I got some bug reports, which are not bugs. Please, read this document before you submitting a bug report. At least packagers need to read this before packaging. Otherwise you’ll end up with something that never works. This guide is very complete and it […]

The new file manager, next generation of PCManFM, is now entering RC1 (release candidate for 1.0). Most of the bugs in pcmanfm bug tracker are cleared and the stability is quite good. As we are now in feature-freeze, no new features are added and this is a major bug fix release. Please get it heavily […]