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Xfce alive and well: new version on its way
On 7 November, Jannis Pohlmann announced the first preview release of Xfce 4.8. The new version of Xfce, which is planned to be released on January 16th, brings much-requested features, and will close...
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It has arrived: Xfce 4.8
The Xfce development team has announced the release of Xfce 4.8, the culmination of almost two years of work. The release makes Xfce once again a truly modern desktop environment by making use of...
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Xfce goings on (Gtk+3 port etc.)
So I’ve been busy lately porting Xfce apps and components to Gtk+3 (you can see on the roadmap page for 4.14 that we’ve come some way already – only the really uncomfortable behemoths are missing ) and...
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Greybird 3.20.0 (to be clear: with support for Gtk+3.20) released
Finally – 5 months after the release of Gtk+3.20 – I’m happy to announce the release of the first version of Greybird supporting it. Why has it taken so long? – you The Widget Factory – 3.20 may ask...
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Preview: Per application settings and Do-not-disturb mode in xfce4-notifyd
As previously announced I’ve been working on per-application settings and a “Do not disturb” mode for xfce4-notifyd, which is Xfce’s notification daemon. Finally I’ve come to a point where I’m ok with...
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Bugfixes incoming: xfce4-notifyd 0.3.1 released!
More good news in notification-land: I just released a new version of xfce4-notifyd – aka 0.3.1 – which fixes some nasty issues, amongst others memory leaks (thanks Tony!) an issue which caused build...
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Featurette: xfce4-notifyd 0.3.2 released
This release came a bit sooner than expected, but it’s primary goal is to fix a showstopper regression which slipped into 0.3.1 and practically rendered xfce4-notifyd useless on systems with Gtk+3...
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Greybird 3.20.1 released (mostly bugfixes)
theme for Plank (a simple dock) by Sean So the first bugfix release for Greybird 3.20 is here and while the changelog isn’t an overly exciting read, there are some goodies in this one! The single new...
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xfce4-clipman 1.4.0 (Gtk3 port) and libxfce4ui 4.13.1 released!
xfce4-clipman-plugin 1.4.0 released So finally I’ve decided to release xfce4-clipman-plugin 1.4.0, which is the Gtk+3 port of the plugin. For a while I was unsure whether to do a development or a...
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Improved media-key handling with xfce4-volumed-pulse 0.2.2
Background So xfce4-volumed has been around a while and automagically handling your media keys – originally written by Steve around 2009 – but lingering unmaintained in Xfce’s Git repository. This...
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Another bugfix release for xfce4-notifyd: 0.3.3 is out!
While I had planned to make the next release about features, I ended up fixing a few issues and doing a bugfix release instead. So 0.3.3 is about getting things right. Test-driven development Generally...
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xfce4-notifyd 0.3.4 released – Do not disturb and per application settings
I’ve finally gotten round to doing a 0.3.4 release and get some of the features I’ve had ready for a while “out there”. On the way a lot of translation updates have trickled in and Christian Hesse...
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Clipman 1.4.1 released
While I haven’t been very active in terms of clipman lately I decided to push out a maintenance release in the 1.4 series nevertheless, as some useful patches had piled up in the master branch. The...
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Pidgin elementary style
Status icon theme A while ago I started working on making Xubuntu’s default messenger app Pidgin look a little more integrated by creating a status-icon theme for it. As Xubuntu relies on the wonderful...
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Releases, releases, releases!
So it’s not that I’ve been quiet and lazy – I was actually busy preparing some releases and hacking on stuff. So here’s an update on what’s been going on and what’s to come. xfce4-taskmanager 1.2.0...
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Releases, releases, releases! Part 2
Testing Xfce Xfce – like many other open source projects – is not exactly following a test-driven development workflow. I would argue that we need a slight mindset change here plus we need some...
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The first Gtk+3 release of xfce4-panel is out!
After a looong waiting time – the original port of the panel was first kicked off in March 2013 by Nick – the first development release of the xfce4-panel is out and I am happy to say it is usable!...
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New hotness: xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0
After quite some development time I have decided to push out xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0 today. This is not just a bugfix, but a feature-packed release. Panel plugin Among the biggest changes there is a panel...
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Second xfce4-panel devel release, clipman and Greybird releases
Most of this post is fairly old news, but still worth to be mentioned. Also as a small gimmick (and because it was requested in my previous post), here is a gif of the new slide-out animation of...
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xfce4-notifyd sees a new point release
After only 2 months of work I was today ready to release xfce4-notifyd 0.4.1 (thanks in part to Viktor’s fix for make distcheck) with a bunch of fixes and some small features too (and of course lots of...
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