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xkb: New Applet for LXPanel
PCMan has added a new branch named lxpanel-xkb in the LXDE Repository. svn co https://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lxde/branches/lxpanel-xkb It’s a new applet for lxpanel which will be a keyboard layout switcher. The original one in lxpanel is broken, and will be removed. The new one will be based on libxlavier, a good library handling xkb. However, we’re from…
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If you don’t like to be forced to use gnome standards, please join xdg mailing list.
The current standard/specifications followed by most of the major UNIX desktop enviromnents, such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and ROX, is called freedesktop.org. See http://www.freedesktop.org/ for detail. Freedesktop.org is formed by a group of developers. Developers duscusses on the so called ‘xdg’ mailing list to come up with some specs which will be followed by…
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PCManFM: OpenSolaris distribution Milax with LXDE component
The first LXDE component has been included in an OpenSolaris distribution. Milax includes PCMan File Manager in its new release. The LXDE/OpenSolaris project was started last year. Alfred Peng from China is responsible for porting LXDE components to OpenSolaris. Links: * http://www.milax.org/?p=218 * PCManFM http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM * http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/lxde/ * http://wiki.lxde.org/en/OpenSolaris
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Please vote for the future of PCManFM.
Please visit the following URL to vote for the future of PCManFM. http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=456 Hi, all LXDE users, After more than two years of development, now LXDE became very active and more and more mature. Recently, some developers joined us, and many new changes were made in our svn repository. However, the core and the origin…
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Nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009
Please nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009 till May 29, 2009. LXDE was started already in 2005 in Taiwan and has spread all over the world. During the last year the project made big advances. New components have been added and older ones were updated. We have formed a viable translation project with…
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LXDE speaks 13 languages!
Three weeks have passed (was supposed to deliver some statistics last week but not that much had happened so I took the weekend to rest =)) since last report and we have had another huge progress in the code, most of it has happened the last week though. As we approach the imminent release of…
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Improving the translations workflow with Transifex
Roughly about a month ago Martin Bagge mentioned that we were researching the possibility of using Transifex as a translation platform for all of the LXDE components. That is not to say that our Pootle server won’t be around, but we felt that our translators could benefit from a few handy features that Transifex has…
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GPicView 0.2 beta is coming with GIF animation support!
Finally, we have yet another new release of GPicView. http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/GPicView Really glad to announce the upcoming release of gpicview 0.2. With the help from Marty Jack and Louis Casillas, some new features are added. * GIF animation support!! * Save jpeg and png files with different compression ratio. * Background color can be freely changed.…
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Making LXDE packages at Coding for Fun in Beijing
I am meeting up with some folks from the Beijing Linux User Group at Coding for fun at the Thiz Linux office in Beijing. It is great to see how dedicated everyone is. eMBee is teaching Guang Yudong how to actually create packages. Besides that we have Zhang Sen working on his Google Summer of…