This is just a short post with what happened recently in Xfce.

  • Xfce4 Power Manager 0.8.0 was released. I did not have time yet to test it, but it looks promising.
  • Jannis Pohlmann and Stephan Arts drafted a release process for Xfce. It still needs to be discussed, but it already looks great. Expect some progress on this once the migration to git is done.
  • Brian Tarricone worked a lot on the git migration, things are almost settled.
  • Jannis Pohlmann is making some awesome progress on Thunar. He developped Tumbler, a D-Bus thumbnailing service based on the thumbnail management D-Bus specification, to replace the old thumbnailing code. A video shows how his first experimental implementation behaves.
  • Nick Schermer made a lot of progress on Xfce4 Panel, fixing and lot of bugs and improving performances. His code can be found on git.xfce.org.
  • Stephan Arts has improved the git version of Ristretto a lot: it works, supports basic printing and features a new improved user interface.
  • It seems that Colin Leroy will be the maintainer of Xfce4 Weather Plugin from now on. Welcome!
  • Mike Massonnet rewrote Xfce4 Notes Plugin in Vala, and improved and lot of things at the same time. Expect a release soon.
  • Ali Abdallah, the developper of Xfce4 Power Manager, added a new Goodie to the SVN. Parole is a Gstreamer based media player. I did not test it, so I cannot say more...