Introducing preview of xfdashboard - a "gnome shell"-like dashboard for xfce

[Willie Matthews]

On 11/27/2013 01:04 PM, Stephan Haller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry, I cannot provide a screencast. I never have done this before ;)
> 
> But what I can do is to write down a quick'n'dirty guide with
> screenshots :)
> 
> Just go to http://gmc-holle.github.io/xfdashboard/
> 
> Greetings,
> Stephan
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.11.2013, 14:05 +0100 schrieb jEsuSdA 8):
>> El 27/11/13 13:18, Stephan Haller escribió:
>>> Hi @all,
>>>
>>>
>>> Nearly since one and a half years I'm a so called "gnome3 refugee" and
>>> switched over to xfce completely ;) Before I always looked at xfce every
>>> now and then to see the improvements. But one thing I'm missing and
>>> that's the way how window switching and application launching is done in
>>> Gnome Shell of Gnome 3.
>>>
>>> So I decided to try if I can rewrite it and make it fit into xfce. The
>>> project is called "xfdashboard". It's not the best name but it was first
>>> one coming into my mind ;)  Now I reached the point where the
>>> application is still neither complete nor finished nor nice-looking but
>>> in an usable state. You can switch between the windows of current
>>> workspace, start application from the quicklaunch bar at the left, add
>>> or remove new applications to quicklaunch bar by drag'n'drop and search
>>> for applications by just typing the application's display name,
>>> description or command.
>>>
>>> I was encouraged to show it to a wider public audience so I created a
>>> preview tarball which can be downloaded at:
>>> https://github.com/gmc-holle/xfdashboard/releases/tag/v0.0.1-alpha_20131125
>>>
>>> To build xfdashboard the following libraries and headers (-dev packages)
>>> have to be installed:
>>>
>>> libwnck >= 2.10
>>> clutter >= 1.12
>>> glib >= 2.30.3
>>> gio >= 2.30.3
>>> gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.30.3
>>> xfconf >= 4.10.0
>>> dbus-glib >= 0.98
>>>
>>> To use xfdashboard I advice to define an application shortcut in
>>> Settings -> Keyboard like <Super>+<Tab> which calls "xfdashboard".
>>>
>>> Although it is working and usable for me and might crash on your
>>> workstation. One issue I know about is one machine using OSS driver
>>> nouveau (for nvidia graphics adapter) has broken textures sometimes
>>> rendering the application unusable.
>>>
>>> You're welcome for any kind of feedback.
>>>
>>> The project's page itself is located at:
>>> https://github.com/gmc-holle/xfdashboard
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>
>> Hi Stephan!
>>
>> Can you show some screenshots o screencast, please?
>>
>> Thank you! ;)
>>
>> Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)
>>
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Great job. Looks really good. Is it possible to show all windows from
all work spaces?

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 Willie Matthews
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