M4RTiN stuurt het volgende in: "Na lang wachten en vooroordelen dat het project 'dead' was is er dan toch eindelijk eeen update. De gehele code is vanaf scratch opnieuw gemaakt, en dit resulteert tot een zeer strakke windows manager en desktop environment voor Linux. Vanaf dit punt zal er snel gewerkt worden tot de final 1.0 versie." XPde is een windows manager voor Linux die de interface en functionaliteit van Windows XP pixel voor pixel probeert na te bootsen. De nieuwste release is gestemeld als versie 0.5.0 en via deze link neer te pompen. Hieronder is het changelog van deze uitgifte te vinden:
Major Enhancements[break]
- The desktop now fully uses PNG+Alpha channel, so you can use the icons of your choice anywhere
- The icon theme has been updated to the latest crystal svg, but not all icons are included, just the needed ones
- The used font now is Bitstream vera, which looks very similar to tahoma
- Now, I'm using QTheme from Andreas Hausladen. Still some work to do on this field.
- The desktop now is a XPShellListView control, that means that is based on the XPListView control will be used to build the explorer and that uses the XPDirectoryMonitor, a component that maintain an update list of files from a directory and it gets notified about changes without polling or using FAM
- The desktop now repaints significantly faster, I have spent most of the time optimizing the code to make it work faster in lower resources machines
- The taskbar is also completely new, is built using bitmaps, as you can see in the shot and can be themed very easily
- The window manager is mostly new, it also allows you to use themes, including rounded window frames.