All green
I'm working a bit on Xfce Edition of Foresight Linux (isn't it green), so I decided, that there might be news worthy to write about but don't expect something interesting here, I'm pretty bad at blogging.
View ArticleXfce 4.4.2 released
Yesterday Xfce 4.4.2 was released. Now I have to find some time after work to get it into Foresight.Hopefully I can cook it tomorrow night. One step closer to the Xfce Edition.
View ArticleA little delay
Looks like I won't have time to work on Xfce Edition before Saturday. But if all goes well Xfce 4.4.2 will be available for fl:2-devel then and we will get rid of this nasty bug in xfwm4. The recipes...
View ArticleThunar patches, claws and everything
Now that there is xfce4 in fl:2-devel, I'll go to add some patches to thunar that didn't make it into 0.9. We need a mailclient too, so i will cook claws-mail, because it's a nice gtk+ client (for me,...
View ArticleRoadmap
Recently pcuttler gave me proper rights to add Releases to Xfce Edition on jira. So Xfce Edition has some blocking tasks that need to be done before getting an alpha release.Check them out at...
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migration and midori
Well, I tried to migrate to group-xfce-dist on fl:2 but I had some problems with python-sqlite and conary will remove a couple of packages, find details here.Thanks to ken, who has built Webkit for...
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Isn't it green?
I did some work on Xfce Edition again and it looks green.Pulseaudio and Packagekit are working now.Still a lot of work to get a stable, full featured release.But it's slowly getting there.
View Articlewhaawmp
Searching for a Totem replacement, I ran into whaawmp.It's meant to be a Totem replacement, written in python, using pygtk and gstreamer.Unfortunatly it's written using Python 2.5 (we don't have it in...
View ArticleIt's getting there...
Fosdem is over. I heard some talkes, investigated some booths, but the fun thing was meeting Michael, Ken, Antonio, and some other guys there.I guess there are better organized events and meetings out...
View Articlewhaawmp 0.2.8
Today Jeff, released whaawmp 0.2.8.Check it out here.There is a release for Python 2.4 too.On to Xfce Edition. I still hope to get an iso out this week.I'm thinking about replacing OO.o with...
View Articlewhaawmp 0.2.10
Jeff just released a bugfix release for whaawmp. It doesn't lockup anymore, if xvideo isn't available and it works with other imagesinks too now.I hope to put out an alpha of Foresight Linux Xfce...
View ArticleXfce Edition alpha1
We eventually put out the long promised alpha1 of Foresight Xfce Edition.It's not perfect (that's why we call it alpha1), but works for me since a long time.We're still missing some applications, and...
View ArticleFuture of Foresight Linux - Xfce Edition
There haven't been much updates on Xfce Edition for a while, becauseI was busy with re{decorating,novating} my apartment, planning my upcoming wedding, my job and so on.Here are some News, I have...
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xfce trunk
Some of you may have recognized that xfce-4.6 alpha (aka pinkie) still isn't released.I just decided to pack xfce directly from trunk.It's available at xfce.rpath.org@xfce:devel.there are some minor...
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A new panel plugin
I eventually created my first xfce panel plugin. Since foresight started to use indicator-applet and notify-osd, I wanted to have a native plugin to avoid using indicator-applet with xfapplet.Today, I...
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get your foresight shirt
Finally after convincing spreadshirt legal department, that I'm a foresight developer,there is foresight.spreadshirt.net. Maybe I will add a shop at spreadshirt.com for US based people later.
View ArticleThe bright future of Foresight Linux
Refining ForesightWhyForesight is what I use for almost a decade now (and that means almost the whole time since it was created by Ken Vandine).It was originally based on rPath Linux and Foresight 2.0...
View ArticleGoodby Foresight
Little more than a year ago I posted about the bright future of foresight linux.Well it looks like this won't happen any more.Yesterday Michael announced our decision to bury (or at least it feels like...
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