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openSUSE-LXDE development status
Ok people… openSUSE 11.3 Milestone2 has been released and quite soon we will have the Milestone3. So now, after lot’s of promises, what is the status now? IT’S DONE! yes… it’s done… openSUSE 11.3 allow now to install LXDE directly from installation DVD or Net install. I’m sure all of you reading this post wants…
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LXDE on the Nokia N900
Siraj has posted a nice video of the Nokia N900 running Ubuntu 9.04 Mobile with LXDE on top over at the Maemo Area. Go watch it!
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PCManFM 0.9 Alpha is released!
After endless waiting, here comes the first public tarball release of next generation PCManFM. But don’t expect too much. This is an Alpha release. 🙂 Everybody loves screenshots. This is PCManFM 0.9.0 alpha running under LXDE with its desktop manager turned on. There will be 1.0, but before it become stable enough for production use, let’s…
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LXDE Google Summer of Code 2010
LXDE is applying as a project for the Google Summer of Code 2010. For students it is a good way to get deeper involved into Free and Open Source Software and LXDE specifically. During the summer students have the chance to code on LXDE and get paid by Google. Some other projects usually also offer…
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Our source code repositories has migrated to Git
We migrated the source code repositories from Subversion to Git recently. Thanks to the HOW-TO, the commit logs in Subversion are all preserved. Why we want to migrate them to Git? The main reason is speed. LXDE is a desktop environment with fast in mind, thus we need a fast SCM which can match our…
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Desktop support of PCManFM is working now!
The latest source code of next generation pcmanfm, aka pcmanfm2, in git repo already supports desktop management. The new desktop manager looks better than the old one in pcmanfm 0.5. Let’s see the screenshot: After compiling the latest source code, run the desktop manager with: pcmanfm2 –desktop Then you’ll see the desktop. Change the wallpaper…
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Lxdm is now themeable!
Hooray! I just finished theming support of LXDM. 🙂 LXDM, the display manager of LXDE, now has full theming support based on gtkrc styles + GtkBuilder xml UI definition. No technology outside GTK+ iteself is needed and no additional library is required for this new feature. Now lxdm even comes with a default theme ported…
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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…
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Future plans and TODOs of LXDE in 2010
As many people have seen, LXDE is currently underwent active development, but most of the visible problems are not yet solved and many distros are still shipping out-dated versions of LXDE components. So I think it’s time to give a more clear roadmap about the plans in 2010. Here’s are problems to solve this year:…
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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.…