Thunar 0.8.0 (+ Xfce 4.4.0) For B3/ii13

[danboid]

Thunar 0.8.0 and xfce 4.4.0 got released yesterday and if I can get this running on pdaXii13 I think I may very well end up being the happiest Z geek in Lancs, if not the UK!?  

I  tried compiling the last release but had no luck- these latest releases may fare better (they depend on less libs and daemons now apparently) but I've been unable to get hold of the sources from neither the xfce site nor GNOMEfiles but hopefully kkazakov13 will be able to get hold of it as he has very kindly said he'd try to get it compiled and packaged for us (well, he offered to compile 'something' for me)- Thanks kkazakov13!!!

http://www.xfce.org/

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Thunar

Does Thunar act as a drop-in replacement for ROX in that it also handles the desktop icons or does another program in XFCE do that?

Good luck kk!

[InSearchOf]

Thunar is just a file manager....

Late

[InSearchOf]

I lied!

that is a new feature of xfce 4.4 Thunar does handle desktop short cuts now...

Late

PS. Xfce 4.4 pdaxrom image... hmmm...

[kkazakov13]

If no one did it before I'm back in 2 days, I will try to compile it.

[danboid]

The main reasons I want this new Thunar (and xfce too maybe) are

* ROX has little interest in retaining your desktop settings/icons - this is one of the few remaing flaws in our beloved pdaXii13

* ROX makes you faff around opening multiple windows to copy stuff- no fun when you're using touchscreen input

* ROX has problems with file extensions and associations, you need to mess with external MIME editors to set it up

pdaXrom is going to be very slick when we get this running!

It's been kinda cool using ROX for a while seeing as its based on RiscOS which ran on the first ARM-based machines, the Acorn Archimedes series so it was kinda like the Z paying tribute to its granddad or summat?  

[Chero]

sources are over here.

Have fun,
Chero (running xfce 4.4 rc2 on pdaX)

[kkazakov13]

I'm on it. Hope I will build it soon.

[kkazakov13]

I'm still building it ... only few packages left. Any quick howto what to do after I install everything? can anyone help how to start xfce, which startup scripts to change?

[Raul]

I'm still building it ... only few packages left. Any quick howto what to do after I install everything? can anyone help how to start xfce, which startup scripts to change?
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Look at the [a href=\"http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/Chero/why-pdax-xfce4/]Chero's web page[/url]

[Chero]

I'm still building it ... only few packages left. Any quick howto what to do after I install everything? can anyone help how to start xfce, which startup scripts to change?
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if you do "xfce4-session", a "startxfce" or "startxfce4" script will be created.

You can also change your original .xinitrc to point to "xfce4-session" instead of openbox/fbpanel. This way you'll have the correct keyboard settings etc.

I'll send you my scripts for 4.4rc2 this evening.

Chero.

[TheWalt]

Sweet... bout time this was finalized.  Looking forward to testing things out

[kkazakov13]

Built it, packaged it, but still playing with it. Looks really fast.

However, I have some issues like after suspend, can't resume it, also it starts rotated in portrait mode, and such. Hope you can help me to cleanup all the things, and I'll package it with the correct settings files.

P.P. I'll build most, if not all of the extra xfce plug-ins too.

[danboid]

That's fantastic news kkazakov13, thanks for doing this for us! If any of the packages are too big for uploading to OESF then hopefully Tyrannozaurus will be able to add it to it's b3 feed, which I'm sure will happen anyway if we get it working. If we're lucky we might not experience your problems with resuming under pdaXii13?!  

[kkazakov13]

One image

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and another one

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I have to get rid of this warning. Also my left button does not work with the stylus. Chero, help! Give me your startup scripts, please!

[Capn_Fish]

One image

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and another one

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I have to get rid of this warning. Also my left button does not work with the stylus. Chero, help! Give me your startup scripts, please!
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Must...not...drool...on...keyboard!

That looks totally AWESOME!!!