Looking back at FrOSCon 2011

Last weekend the 6th FrOSCon took place in St Augustin. Once again it was a nice event, but this time we tried something new: A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) as part of the conference. I arrived at St Augustin on Friday around 7 p.m.. A lot of people were already there and it was nice …

Video thumbnails in Thunar

As you might know thumbnails in Thunar are generated with tumbler. For obvious reasons the tumbler package in Fedora cannot include the tumbler-ffmpeg plugin. By popular demand I now rolled an add-on package called tumbler-freeworld. When installed, this is what it looks like: If you are a packager at RPM Fusion, please review the package. …

Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

I have updated my Xfce 4.8 repository at and it is fairly complete. Some packages however are now obsolete: thunar-shares-plugin: dead upstream, would needed to be ported from thunar-vfs to gvfs. xfce4-remmina-plugin: remmina now has a generic trayicon, however the new version is only available in F15 or my remmina backports repo. xfce4-stopwatch-plugin: dead upstream, …