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Direct UDisks Support Partially Works in Libfm
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!
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Recent LXDE Progress
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…
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Have trouble with PCManFM 0.9.x? Read this FAQ!
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…
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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…
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PCManFM 0.9.7 + libfm 0.1.12 (RC1)
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…
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Updated roadmap of new PCManFM
As the development of next generation PCManFM continues, there are many questions from the community and there is even some FUD regarding to comparison with previous 0.5 series. It’s time to have an more clear and updated roadmap. Volume management: Currently, gvfs is used for this, but this dependency is temporary and it will be…
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LXMusic supports Album Art
XMMS2 supports Album Art from various sources via picture_front property. LXMusic in master branch leverages this functionality to display album art in desktop notifications if available: Please test!
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LXMusic 0.4.4 released
Most important changes include: Use XMMS2 Collection API Translation updates By using Collection API, performance improved dramatically on large play lists. Loading time for 3030 entries reduced from 7 to 0.5 seconds on a Core 2 Duo T6500 system. Please help to advance LXDE development and test releases, help with translations and update the wiki. Links:…
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Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 is Released
The release manager of Lubuntu release, the community maintained Ubuntu variant featuring LXDE, Julien Lavergne just announced the availability of Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. Here is his release note on the mailing list: “The Lubuntu Lucid Beta 2 is now available. Don’t forget that it’s build with Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) which is still in Beta…
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Important Updates for Google Summer of Code
Hi all potential students, Since most of the previously proposed items are not suitable for Google SoC because they are not challenging enough, I rewrite the whole page and list some real projects which can be done for the whole summer. Some of previously proposed items are too easy and some can even be done…