[Xfce4-commits] <www:nick/gettext> Fixup tour stuff.
Nick Schermer
noreply at xfce.org
Sat Jan 15 19:08:02 CET 2011
Updating branch refs/heads/nick/gettext
to 87642fe4818df06595ba8d9f17e4f307264540e2 (commit)
from 89eed51b2b349883cebd9ebf210d7798cab45ffd (commit)
commit 87642fe4818df06595ba8d9f17e4f307264540e2
Author: Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org>
Date: Sat Jan 15 19:07:45 2011 +0100
Fixup tour stuff.
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pages/about/tour.php | 28 ++-
pages/about/tour44.php | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/pages/about/tour.php b/pages/about/tour.php
index 60d7db6..f4cd111 100644
--- a/pages/about/tour.php
+++ b/pages/about/tour.php
@@ -2,25 +2,33 @@
<h1><?php echo $head['title'] ?></h1>
-<p><?php E_('This tour will introduce you to all the new major visual features in Xfce 4.8. This is only the visual part of what has been done; for a full list of changes, see the <a href="/download/changelogs/">changelogs</a>. The tour for Xfce 4.6 can be found <a href="/about/tour46">here</a>.') ?></p>
+<p><?php E_("This tour will introduce you to all the new major visual features in Xfce 4.8. This is only the visual part of what has been done; for a full list of changes, see the <a href=\"/download/changelogs/\">changelogs</a>. The tours of <a href=\"/about/tour46\">Xfce 4.6</a> and <a href=\"/about/tour44\">Xfce 4.4</a> are also still available.") ?></p>
<h2><?php E_("Thunar file browser") ?></h2>
<h3><?php E_("Remote shares browsing") ?></h3>
- <p><?php E_("Thunar now has optionnal support for GVFS which will allow you to browse remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers...") ?></p>
+ <p><?php E_("Thunar now has optional support for GVFS which will allow you to browse remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers...") ?></p>
<h3><?php E_("New file operations progress dialog") ?></h3>
<p><?php E_("When several file operations (copy or move) are being handled in parallel, Thunar now shows a single progress dialog which displays all the relevant information.") ?></p>
+
+ <p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.8/thunar-progess.png" alt="<?php E_("Progress dialog") ?>" /></p>
<h3><?php E_("Eject button for removable devices") ?></h3>
<p><?php E_("It is is now possible to eject removable devices by clicking the eject button near each removable device label in the side pane.") ?></p>
+
+ <p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.8/thunar-eject.png" alt="<?php E_("Eject button") ?>" /></p>
<h2><?php E_("Xfce panel") ?></h2>
<p><?php E_("The Xfce panel has been totally rewritten in 4.8, here are the most visible changes.") ?></p>
+
+ <h3><?php E_("Improved positioning and size handling") ?></h3>
+
+ <p><?php E_("The panel has much better support for positing panels on the screen. It can be dragged and snapped to screen borders; floating positions are only remembered when moving a panel and the length of the panel can be adjusted as a percentage of the monitor size.") ?></p>
<h3><?php E_("Transparent backgrounds") ?></h3>
@@ -29,14 +37,16 @@
<h3><?php E_("New item editor") ?></h3>
<p><?php E_("The panel now features an item editor which allows to modify, move, add and remove items qucikly. This is particularly useful for items which are hard to right click and gives you an easy way to change your panel layout from a single place.") ?></p>
+
+ <p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.8/panel-editor.png" alt="<?php E_("Panel item editor") ?>" /></p>
<h3><?php E_("Drag and drop to create launchers") ?></h3>
- <p><?php E_("You can now drag and drop menu entries from the panel applications menu to the panel to create panel and desktop launchers. This feature should please the huge number of people who had been requesting it for ages.") ?></p>
+ <p><?php E_("You can now drag and drop menu entries from the panel applications menu, application finder or Thunar to the panel to create launchers. This feature should please the huge number of people who had been requesting it for ages. The launcher also has an integrated application finder to add new items.") ?></p>
- <!-- iconbox and tasklist merged in new 'window buttons' plugin -->
-
- <!-- much improved positioning: show panel only on a single output, snap to screen edges and don't move floating panels -->
+ <h3><?php E_("Window buttons plugin") ?></h3>
+
+ <p><?php E_("The iconbox and tasklist plugins are new merged into 1 plugin, called window buttons. It implements different sorting modes, improved handling in vertical panels and can draw a similar frame as Xfwm4 Alt+tab when hovering a button.") ?></p>
<h3><?php E_("New fuzzy clock") ?></h3>
@@ -45,6 +55,8 @@
<h3><?php E_("New directory menu plugin") ?></h3>
<p><?php E_("The directory menu plugin provides a menu reproducing the arborescence of a particular folder. This allows you to open a terminal or a file manager in a sub-folder in a very fast and efficient way.") ?></p>
+
+ <p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.8/panel-directorymenu.png" alt="<?php E_("Directory menu plugin") ?>" /></p>
<h3><?php E_("Applications menu edition") ?></h3>
@@ -56,7 +68,7 @@
<p><?php E_("Xfce can now handle and setup multihead setups for any randr 1.2 compatible driver. Unfortunately, this means it will not work with Nvidia proprietary drivers.") ?></p>
- <p><?php E_("You can enable and disable plugged screens, set their resolution, reflesh rate, rotation and reflexion, clone screens or extend desktops.") ?></p>
+ <p><?php E_("You can enable and disable plugged screens, set their resolution, refresh rate, rotation and reflection, clone screens or extend desktops.") ?></p>
<h4><?php E_("Timed confirmation") ?></h4>
@@ -72,4 +84,4 @@
<h3><?php E_("Improved keyboard layout selection") ?></h3>
- <p><?php E_("The layout selection dialog received a lot of love: it no longer displays cryptic language/variants codes but uses localised languages/variants names. Layout edition was also made easier by prefilling the dialogs with the current values.") ?></p>
+ <p><?php E_("The layout selection dialog received a lot of love: it no longer displays cryptic language/variants codes but uses localized languages/variants names. Layout edition was also made easier by prefilling the dialogs with the current values.") ?></p>
diff --git a/pages/about/tour44.php b/pages/about/tour44.php
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@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+<?php $head['title'] = R_('Xfce 4.4 tour') ?>
+
+<h1><?php echo $head['title'] ?></h1>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('As of today, the long awaited version 4.4.0 of the Xfce Desktop Environment is finally available. I will try to highlight some of the new features which have been added since the last stable release.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<h2><?php E_('Desktop Icons') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('One of the most often requested features during the 4.0 and 4.2 was support for icons on the desktop. Now, with Xfce 4.4.0, this feature was finally added to the desktop manager <b>Xfdesktop</b>.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/desktop-icons.png" alt="Desktop Icons" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The desktop manager utilizes <b>Thunar</b>\'s libraries to handle application launchers and regular files/folders on the desktop. The desktop manager is also able to display icons for minimized windows on the desktop, which is quite a popular feature from the CDE world. Of course, you can disable the desktop icons altogether if you prefer a clean desktop.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/desktop-settings.png" alt="Desktop Settings" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Xfdesktop</b> also continues to provide access to the applications menu, as it did in the previous Xfce releases.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('File Manager</a>') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The desktop icon support goes hand in hand with the new file manager <a href="http://thunar.xfce.org/">Thunar</a> which replaces the previous file manager <b>Xffm</b>.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/thunar.png" alt="Thunar File Manager" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Thunar</b> was written from scratch to provide an easy to use, but still very lightweight file manager for Xfce. Its user interface was designed to look similar to the file chooser which was introduced with GTK+ 2.4, and other file managers such as <b>Nautilus</b> and <b>pcmanfm</b> already picked up that idea as well.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Thunar</b> supports all the file management functionality which users will expect, and also several advanced features. For example, a so-called <i>Bulk Renamer</i> is included which allows users to rename multiple files at once using a certain criterion.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/thunar-bulk-rename.png" alt="Thunar Bulk Rename" /></p>
+
+<h2><?php E_('Removable Drives and Media') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Xfce 4.4.0 provides easy access to data on removable drives and media. Just insert the media into the drive or plug the new drive in to the computer and an icon representing the removable volume will appear on the desktop and in <b>Thunar</b>\'s side pane.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/removable-volumes.png" alt="Removable Volumes" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Click on the icon to automatically mount the volume. Right-click the icon to unmount the drive or eject the media from the drive. Note however that this feature requires <a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal">HAL</a> and is therefore only available for Linux 2.6.x and FreeBSD 6.x and above at the time of this writing (there is limited removable media support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x which does not require HAL).') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Text Editor') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The new text editor <b>MousePad</b> is included with this release. <b>MousePad</b> provides all the basic editor functionality, nothing more, nothing less.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/mousepad.png" alt="MousePad" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('
+You can think of <b>MousePad</b> as the equivalent to <b>NotePad</b> on Windows. It starts up very fast, usually in less than one second, even on older systems.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<h2><?php E_('Window Manager<a name="window-manager"></a>') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Xfwm4</b> continues to be the window manager of the hearts.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfwm4-argb32.png" alt="Xfwm4 ARGB32" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('This release features an enhanced compositor, supporting transparent ARGB windows, shadows, window frame transparency and much more.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfwm4-switcher.png" alt="Xfwm4 Switcher" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Xfwm4</b> also includes a brand new application switcher, as shown in the screenshot above, which displays all windows from the current workspace with icons and window titles.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfwm4-themes.png" alt="Xfwm4 Themes" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Further on support for multiple image formats for window decoration themes was added, including <tt>PNG</tt>, <tt>GIF</tt> and <tt>SVG</tt> images.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfwm4-tweaks.png" alt="Xfwm4 Tweaks" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Advanced controls for the window manager were also added, allowing thorough tweaking of window behavior.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Panel') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The <b>Xfce4-panel</b> was completely rewritten for the Xfce 4.4 release. Multiple panels are supported <i>out of the box</i> now and can easily be configured using the new <b>Panel Manager</b> shown in the screenshot below.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/panel-manager.png" alt="Panel Manager" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('
+One of the major problems in previous Xfce releases was that every plugin had to be run in the same process as the panel, and hence every plugin was able to crash the whole panel. To address this issue, support for external plugins was added to the panel.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/panel-additem.png" alt="Panel Add Item Dialog" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Developers of panel plugins can now decide whether the plugin should run as external process or as part of the panel process, depending on the stability of the plugin.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/panel-iconbox.png" alt="Panel Icon Box Plugin" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('
+Since there is now support for multiple panels, the separate <b>Xftaskbar4</b> and <b>Xfce4-iconbox</b> utilities are no longer required. Instead, both the taskbar and the iconbox are available as panel plugins now.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Most of the additional panel plugins, available via the <a href="http://goodies.xfce.org/">Xfce Goodies Project</a>, have been updated for the new panel, and several new plugins were added. For example, the brand new <b>xfce4-xfapplet-plugin</b> allows users to add GNOME panel applets to the Xfce panel.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Time Management') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The new time management application <b>Orage</b> replaces the <b>Xfcalendar</b>, which was introduced with Xfce 4.2.0. <b>Orage</b> provides several features to efficiently manage your time.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/orage.png" alt="Orage" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('While <b>Orage</b> is very lightweight and easy to use, it supports all the important features found in larger calendar applications like <b>Outlook</b> or <b>Evolution</b>. While <b>Xfcalendar</b> used the custom <tt>dbh</tt> format in the past to store your settings, <b>Orage</b> is based on <tt>ical</tt> and therefore compatible with other calendar applications.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Terminal Emulator') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('While <b>Terminal</b> was already available during the 4.2 days, it was not mature enough at that time to be part of the core. With this major release, it was moved into the core desktop.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/terminal.png" alt="Terminal" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Besides the basic features which you might expect from a terminal emulator, it includes some nice additional features, like multiple tabs per window, customizable toolbars and the ability to configure nearly every aspect of the application via <i>hidden options</i>. As can be seen in the screenshot above, this release also supports real transparency using <b>Xfwm4</b>\'s
+integrated composition manager.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Printing<a name="printing"></a>') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Xfprint</b>, the Xfce printing management application, saw several small improvements with this release. First, the <tt>a2ps</tt> converter is not mandatory anymore, whilst still recommended. Support for <tt>CUPS</tt> 1.2 was added and <b>Xfprint</b> is now able to display the printer state with the <tt>CUPS</tt>-backend.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfprint.png" alt="Xfce Printing" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('<b>Xfprint</b> also integrates with <b>MousePad</b> to provide generic printing support for different kinds of text documents using the <tt>a2ps</tt> converter.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/xfprint-dialog.png" alt="Xfce Print Dialog" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('As you can see the print dialog still looks relatively similar to that of Xfce 4.2, but the internal workings of the printing support were improved, especially the <tt>CUPS</tt> support. Besides that, the printing management functionality was moved to a library, so other applications can use the API to access the printer configuration.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Autostart') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Xfce 4.4.0 implements the new <a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fautostart_2dspec">Autostart Specification</a> - actually Xfce was the first desktop to implement said feature, but the others were faster to release. ;-)') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/autostart.png" alt="Xfce Autostart Editor" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The specification consists of two parts, the <i>Autostart of Applications During Startup</i>, which is implemented in <b>xfce4-session</b> and the <i>Autostart Of Applications After Mount</i> which is implemented in <a href="http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/thunar-volman/index.html">thunar-volman</a>. This release also includes the <b>xfce4-autostart-editor</b>, shown in the screenshot above, which allows users to easily add, remove or disable autostarted applications.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Settings') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('This release introduces new options to customize the desktop to your needs. Some examples of new settings dialogs were already shown in the sections above.') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/preferences-applications.png" alt="Preferred Applications" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('The preferred applications framework, which was previously only available in <b>Terminal</b>, was imported into Xfce, so users no longer need to edit shell profiles to specify which browser and terminal emulator should be used by Xfce applications. The goal was to make it as easy as possible to change an application for a certain category (GNOME users may have already noticed that GNOME adopted this approach, because it is such simple).') ?>
+</p>
+
+<p class="image"><img src="/images/about/tour/4.4/preferences-keyboard.png" alt="Keyboard Shortcuts" /></p>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('And then there was the problem with the keyboard shortcuts in Xfce 4.2... Xfce 4.2 limited the number of freely available keyboard shortcuts, while people wanted to assign any number of keyboard shortcuts. With Xfce 4.4 this limitation is history and the application shortcuts are now separated from the window manager shortcuts.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Feedback') ?></h2>
+
+<p>
+ <?php E_('Please post comments on this article in my <a href="http://xfce-diary.blogspot.com/2007/01/visual-tour-of-xfce-440.html">blog</a> and use the <a href="/community/lists">xfce</a> mailinglist if you have questions about Xfce 4.4.0 or trouble with the installation.') ?>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2><?php E_('Links') ?></h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.xfce.org/">Xfce website</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://thunar.xfce.org/">Thunar website</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2><?php E_('Credits') ?></h2>
+
+<p>Written by Benedikt Meurer, 21 Jan 2007</p>
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