Recently in Xfce
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...
Comments
Nice service, such a little summary, thank you.
Hi,
I really enjoy xfce,
Yet, in both xfce 4.6 and 4.6.1 the rubberbanding does not drag all icons all together.
Everything in xfce4.6 is really good, yet this rubberbanding, and I am not being picky,
but it gets pretty annoying when one has to indevidually drag every icon to the desired destination.
I am forced to use the command line. Which is cool, yet what is the point of rubberbanding then?
Could you please look into that? Or tell me how to move several icons, because I just select and try dragging and it does not work.
Sincerely,
Dima
usul: thank you!
ofek: it's not yet possible to move group of icons. This should be fixed for Xfce 4.8.
You can drag several icons from the desktop to the trash or a folder, but yes, it is not yet possible to move several icons on the desktop.