Freedom
Just read this article (german). Wow. Best heise article I’ve read so far.
Thunar Firefox-like location bar
I decided to upgrade the currently available libexo debian package to revision 85, so Ubuntu/Debian users do not need to compile libexo themselves in order to run the Thunar mockups or the currently available snapshots. The API shouldn’t break during the next weeks, so you’re mostly safe to upgrade.
And while I was at it, I also updated the Xfmedia package to the latest 0.9.0svn snapshot, so users of that package are now able to also enjoy the new jump-to-file thingy - which I still think is very annoying, esp. with large playlists, where the tree model switching causes ugly flickering, but Brian likes it that way currently, so you’ll have to live with it or use another media player. ;-)
I may update some of the Xfce core packages as well during the week. Most of the current trunk stuff is pretty stable. Maybe that stops people from sending me mails, asking when the packages will be updated next time. Nah, but seriously, with 4.2.1.1 in Ubuntu universe and 4.2.2 in Debian experimental, it’s time to think about 4.3 now.
Qt4
So Trolltech finally released Qt4 today, and their servers are nearly unreachable all day. We’ll most probably stay with Qt3 for a long time tho, as it would be too costly to upgrade to Qt4. Even trivial programs take a lot of time to migrate, and we have way too much non-trivial, partly plattform-dependent code. Nevertheless we checked the new Qt4 today. What makes me wonder is that in all the announcements and relnotes, there’s not much mention of the new accessibility support of Qt4, which is IMHO the most important addition to Qt (besides the model/view separation).
Terminal day
Finally came around to fix some long standing issues for Terminal. While profiling stuff I found out that VTE uses around 24M data memory to manage 13 VteTerminal widgets, which is really a lot of memory.
And then there was trash...
The ThunarFile and ThunarFolder interfaces are now completely independent of the specific implementation. This makes it possible to support various different file systems with Thunar. As a first candidate, I implemented a first draft for the Trash vfolder today, which means Thunar is now able to display the contents of the trash cans currently connected to your system - well, in theory it is, but the trash manager doesn’t handle foreign trash cans currently, but it will soon. :-)
Diving into trashed directories isn’t supported yet, but shouldn’t be a problem with the current interfaces.