Here is a brief status update for the project. 1. I got stucked by my work in hospital this month, so nothing new was done for the file manager. Next month I'll continue fixing the remaining bugs and try to make a new release. 2. One of our major developer, Marty Jack, has left the project. We thanked him for all the contribution he has done so far. 3. LXPanel is previously maintained by Marty Jack. So now a new maintainer is needed. 4. The session manager is more or less in a half-done status. I'm now reading some docs to see how to get X session management support. Gnome applications used their own dbus-based way to connect to gnome session manager and this is not cross-desktop. If we want to implement similar thing, there is no desktop-neutral solution now. Too bad. :-( After doing seaching again and again on google and RTFM for many times, there doesn't seem to be a reasonable and desktop-independent way to handle locking.
The goals of next month: 1. Get the buggy file manager fixed and have a really working release that sucks less. 2. Try to incoporate x session management thing into lxsession. The future of the project: 1. The image viewer: I'm not able to maintain gpicview anymore due to limited time. Previous work done during GSoC is not yet in a usable status. Help is needed to continue this part, or another solution may be use Viewnior instead. 2. While trying to solve the remaining problems for the DE, I finally realized that there is no real cross-desktop solution. Unless you're not going to use programs written for other DEs, it's not possible to be completely cross-desktop. Gnome apps talks to their session manager via their own private ways. In addition, many things are not yet standardized and programs from different camps all use different implementations. Since it's not possible for us to support all of them, we need to make some hard choices. 3. To make desktop components more integrated and to make the desktop experience smoother, it's not possible to stay completely desktop-independent and modular. If we're going to make a real DE, we need to compromise in some areas. However, if we do too much integration and make the apps bundled together, basically we'll become XFCE. I have been thinking about this for quite a long time and there is no single best answer so far. 4. If nobody knows how to get Transifex work correctly as before, we may need to drop it. :-( Thanks for all your patience and sorry for all the inconvenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Pcmanfm-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pcmanfm-develop
