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- | MHrMYa | + | ====== Videos for Xfce 4.6 ====== |
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+ | I (Jannis) am planning on a series of videos to present Xfce 4.6 to users and developers. Here's what I came up with a few sleepless nights ago. The idea I have is to show two videos per week starting with the first release candidate, one user video and one developer video. | ||
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+ | If you have more ideas, please let me know. You can leave comments in the comments section at the bottom of this page. Thanks! | ||
+ | ===== User videos ===== | ||
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+ | ==== 1. The first login ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Briefly present main components and applications shipped with Xfce 4.6. | ||
+ | * Explain what's been removed and what's new. | ||
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+ | ==== 2. Customizing the panel ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Explain how to create and modify panels. | ||
+ | * Show how to add new items (e.g. launchers with xfce4-appfinder). | ||
+ | * Show goodies website and add some of the goodies to a panel. | ||
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+ | ==== 3. The settings in detail ==== | ||
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+ | * Go through all the settings dialogs and explain how the options affect the behaviour or look of Xfce. | ||
+ | * Demonstrate some of the options while explaining them. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 4. Three ways to access the settings ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Via xfce4-settings-manager | ||
+ | * Via xfconf-query | ||
+ | * Via xfce4-settings-editor | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 5. The menu ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Explain how to customize the menu (in the ways supported by libxfce4menu). | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Developer videos ===== | ||
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+ | ==== 1. Introduction ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Short presentation: | ||
+ | * What's new? | ||
+ | * What has been removed? | ||
+ | * Which components/libraries are especially made for developers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 2. Xfconf Part I: The libary ==== | ||
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+ | * Tutorial on how to use xfconf in a new application. | ||
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+ | ==== 3. Xfconf Part II: xfconf-query ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Tutorial on how to use xfconf-query to alter the settings: | ||
+ | * Example application: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 4. libxfce4menu ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Tutorial on how to list all applications available in Xfce. | ||
+ | * Explain how filesystem monitoring works. | ||
+ | * Explain how menu layouts work. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 5. Third party features ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Tutorial on how to write and embed a third party settings dialog into xfce4-settings manager (interesting for distributions). | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Comments ===== | ||
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+ | * maybe write a little howto on how to make those videos (which soft, how to have sound, stuff like that) | ||
+ | * Sounds good, but with recordMyDesktop there' |