September 2020

Building a Ractor based logger that will work with non-Ractor compatible code

Leave a Comment / Ruby, Ruby 3, Software, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Feed / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 30, 2020

Recently Mike Perham shared a tweet with this comment and a code sample on the Ruby 3.0 Ractors. If this code doesn’t work, how could Rails ever work? Ractor seems fundamentally incompatible with many heavily-used Rails APIs. require ‘logger’ class Rails def self.logger @logger ||= Logger.new(STDOUT) end end Ractor.new do Rails.logger.info “Hello” end.take During the …

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Xfce 4.16pre1 released!

Leave a Comment / desktop, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

As scheduled we have just released Xfce 4.16pre1 on August 27th (sorry for the long time to write a post about it) – the first development release leading up to Xfce 4.16. And it comes with a boatload of new features and improvements, so prepare yourselves. Notable Changes General Dropping lots of code (Gtk2 support), …

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Xfce infrastructure in 2020

Leave a Comment / desktop, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

Oh boy, 3 years without any blogpost ! So much things happened in the Xfce world! First, we finally released Xfce 4.14 in August 2019, more than 4 years of effort, a migration to gtk3, and so much new things, but you already know that, and you surely already run it. We are now working …

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Bountysource update

Leave a Comment / desktop, News, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

I quickly wanted to share an update to my previous post our leaving Bountysource behind (at least as platform for individual bug bounties). Bountysource support has informed us that “All bounties on Xfce issues have been refunded and backers notified.” If you are a backer of one of our issues registered on Bountysource and haven’t …

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Thunar, GtkAction and a big mess

Leave a Comment / desktop, thunar, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

Overview My journey into the GtkAction abysses of Thunar began in the mid of 2019. Be warned, it is no story of success. It is rather a story about finding a way through a maze while walking into almost every dead end. Actually I just wanted to fix #198 (Merge all file-context-menus into one). But …

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Why Bountysource? Why?

Leave a Comment / desktop, News, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

TL;DR No more Xfce bugs on Bountysource.com (no support for GitLab) All remaining bug bounties returned to original backers Xfce Team account on Bountysource remains intact for now (including all donations so far) Some background When we kicked off Bountysource as one way to contribute to Xfce financially, this platform really seemed to be in …

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GitLab CI is up and running

Leave a Comment / desktop, News, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

As announced less than two weeks ago, the next steps in our GitLab migration are following. While we originally planned that the migration from Bugzilla to GitLab issues would be the next step we received generous support from the brand new fosshost project: They provided us with the virtual infrastructure to be able to set up our …

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Xfce switches to GitLab

Leave a Comment / desktop, News, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

GitLab is here! Starting today, May 1, we’re switching from our cgit/gitolite setup to GitLab. Our old server, git.xfce.org, is now a ready-only in-sync mirror (so you can still pull code). Our new server is gitlab.xfce.org. (The detailed version of this blog post can be read in my announcement on the Xfce Mailing List.) For …

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Xfce 4.14 Maintenance and 4.15 Updates

Leave a Comment / desktop, News, XFCE / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

Xfce 4.14 Maintenance As promised we’re trying to be much better at doing maintenance releases for Xfce 4.14. In part, we had a hard time doing maintenance for Xfce 4.12 because with all the porting work it was hard to focus on fixing Gtk+2 bugs and many bugreports/fixes didn’t apply to both 4.12 and 4.14. …

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Catfish 1.4.12 Released

Leave a Comment / 20.04, Catfish File Search, desktop, XFCE, xubuntu / By Ubuntu Server Admin / September 29, 2020

Catfish 1.4.12 on Wayland on Ubuntu 19.10 Dialog Improvements All dialogs now utilize client-side decorations (CSD) and are modal. The main window will continue to respect the window layout setting introduced in the 1.4.10 release. I also applied a number of fixes to the new Preferences and Search Index dialogs, so they should behave more …

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Building a Ractor based logger that will work with non-Ractor compatible code

Xfce 4.16pre1 released!

Xfce infrastructure in 2020

Bountysource update

Thunar, GtkAction and a big mess

Why Bountysource? Why?

GitLab CI is up and running

Xfce switches to GitLab

Xfce 4.14 Maintenance and 4.15 Updates

Catfish 1.4.12 Released

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