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New theme thanks to Silvestre !

Hello all out there !

After a long waiting for some kind of happening here on the dropline world, we have had a nice surprise, thanks to one of our old hackers. A new theme for our web page. We can simply all say “Thanks Silvestre” , if anybody is interested in this guy awesome work he can look at his web page. Please take some time to browse the web page and report us all of the items you feel are not correct or would you like to see in a different way. Meanwhile we are preparing our next long term support release of gnome 2.32, which will be for Slackware 13.1 and possibly for Slackware 13.37 . Nothing is yet defined, but we will see how thing will go.
If you are interested in helping us out, we are still in need of help. Please get in touch with us trough the various contacts we have, best way s the mailing list.

The dropline GNOME development team.

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Disabled forums

Hi everybody, this post is just to advise that since we have got a lot of spam in the forums, I have opted for a drastic measure.
I have disabled the forums user creation. So if anybody wants to create a new user in the forums is pleased to contact the development
team, so we can add your user.

The dropline GNOME development team.

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Theme problems.

Hi , its a while since we have a new post in here. I have changed the default theme of the web page , since the one we have for dropline GNOME website, is a bit outdated for the wordpress we use.
Updating wordpress from version 2.x to 3.x begun making problems , and the main page from time to time disappears, or better doesn’t load properly. So we are in a process of releasing an ALPHA version of the 2.32 dropline GNOME desktop very soon. And hopefully after that ALPHA release we will find some time to fix that web page problems.

For now I would say, its better to have a page showing something than just a blank page.

Enjoy, the dropline GNOME development team.

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Forums restored.

Ok, I took some time today to checkout what happened with the forums, and it seems that there somebody in some way overwrote the database servers address. This was most probably done by some of those spammers. Anyway, the logs seem clean and I do not have much time to look around what happened. I simply upgraded the forums and backup-ed the database.
This in per se means that we should be fine for some time, but since the forums are pretty inactive I keep them there still just because of a lot of information in it.

Said that, I would like to make a note, I will be deleting and banning every user which will seem a spammer , this is because its less time for me to remove a user than to restore the forums.
This means that I can do some mistakes also, and if so please contact us and we will give you access if you were removed by mistake.

– The dropline GNOME development team.

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Website and other news.

Hello , a long time we had no news. I would like first to excuse ourselves because our site was down for some time. It was because we did an upgrade of wordpress and the theme we have is most probably not working with the latest version. So now I have downgraded and it seems its running. My time is scarse and we need help with the web page also. If somebody is willing to prepare a new theme or maybe update this one and fix it to work with the latest wordpress is very welcome, meanwhile we will also want to improve the visits in our sites using optimizing services from https://the-indexer.com/seo-companies/ so our site get  more clients for us. If so please contact us, or on the development mailing list or in the
irc channel, please don’t forget to leave your contact in irc if you do not have the possibility to idle in there.

The gnome 2.32 is still in the works, we need few more packages and fixes and we are ready to release the alpha version. This post right now is written from a already running dropline gnome 2.32 desktop, which is quite stable now and is for Slackware 13.1 . Right now we are working toward supplying you an alpha installer which will serve as an jumping board to those who want to help fixing the things so that we can release the final 2.32 release.

Meanwhile we wish you also a Happy New Year 2011 with a lot of happy slacking.

– The dropline GNOME development team.

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Forums polished and few other things.

Hello, its been a long time since I wrote something here. Sorry but my time is shorter and shorter. This doesn’t mean that I will stop working on that project, but it means that we will need to review some things since nobody is living from this , and life has other priorities. Said that, you can also see from the actions we have here that the project is going slowly ahead. This is because few mans can not do things quickly. Again, if there is somebody who will and want to help, please enter in contact with us on our irc channel and we will agree and redistribute the work.

For now we have quite some packages built for Slackware 13.1 but they are only for x86-64 arch. Thiago is working on the 32bit version and sincerly I don’t know how he is standing with it.
Big thanks go also to the few other people who are helping us and I really wish they can stay with us and we all together go ahead as a small team and soon release a new stable version of Dropline GNOME desktop. The packages built up to now can produce an unfinished desktop, but I got it to run under Slackware-13.1 and I can say that its fast and nice to see a renewed version.

Another thing is that we would need a face lift for our themes , anybody out there willing to help with graphics ? If so, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

And lastly, I would like to say that I have cleaned up the forums, and removed a bunch of users who I think they are simple bots and spammers according to the topics posted in the various forums. I ask, do we need the forums ? Do we still use them ? Would be good to know since in the positive case we need somebody who can keep track in it, and do some polishing from time to time. Ok, if I deleted somebody or banned somebody by mistake please let me know.

Thats it, and I’m looking forward to see more of you in here with us.

– The dropline GNOME development team.

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dropline GNOME project status

From time to time somebody comes into our #dropline channel on irc.freenode.net and asks if we need some help, or any other thing. Yes we need your help, and we want to continue to develop our beloved desktop. In case you are one of those who steps in the channel and asks something, don’t worry if you do not receive the answer immediately. It is because we are from many
different time zones, and especially not a hugely populated channel. But sooner or later your answer comes. So please if you have an will to help, step in and wait there for somebody answering you. Of course we are not developing here to live, but we are doing it for our own passion, therefore don’t expect it to be perfect.

In many years I’m here with that project we had ups and downs, but important is that we are still here, probably now its a longer down period, but hopefully this will soon be over. In my personal opinion a community project needs to be driven in some way from a person or few of them, but it should be mainly done by the community. In our case it is like this just that our community is small and therefore we need more time to do the things.

Right now we have some packages done for Slackware64-13.1 , if everything goes ok, and time permits it, soon we will be ready with them and finally release our new gnome desktop, after a longer time without updating it.

Again, there is plenty ways of helping. Some time ago somebody asked if we were in need of an editor, I can say, yes, we need an editor, we need any kind of help, so we need people from the filed of graphics, themes, audio, video, and so on, not only programmers or packagers. There is a very very large spectrum of the things we can do and improve.

That’s it for now and if you want to join us , you are more than welcome !!

– The dropline GNOME development team.

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Development and help….

Hi to all of you who are interested in our work ! If you think that we are stopped you are wrong. There is some people working on the upcoming release for dropline GNOME 2.28 desktop. We all know that gnome has released their 2.28 version of the desktop tarballs and we are trying to bring it to you as fast as possible.
Personally I’m very busy with my work and since we have just few people now in the team we always need help on building the desktop. If you are one of this persons who has enough time, forces and knowledge, please don’t worry to step into the #dropline channel on irc.freenode.net and ask for how you can help. There will for sure be somebody who will be able to answer you and direct you in the right direction. Don’t worry if you doesn’t receive your answer immediately , this is because all of the people in the channel are from different places of the world and with different time zones. So maybe they are slipping at the time you ask. Also you can subscribe to our development mailing list, and post your questions in there. Forums are also up and running and if somebody likes to use them you are free to do it.

Anyway, the development is going on , and if you look at our wiki you can see the progress of the work. Also you can check the ChangeLog from our svn or look at it on our web page. For sure is one thing, we will release the dropline GNOME 2.28 and make it even better of what we did with our 2.26 release. Our policy is not to hurry and not to release what can be a dangerous or not well tested desktop.

Again thanks to all of you guys taking the thing into your hands and building stuff.

– The dropline GNOME Development Team.

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Website updates and other stuff….

Its not a long time since we released dropline GNOME 2.26.3, and I can surely say that the team has already begun working on the upcoming release for the dropline GNOME 2.28.x release, which hopefully will take less time than it took for the current one. But lets wait a little bit and we all will see. Our opinion is that its better to wait a little bit more and deliver a well done product than just have it done quickly and not so well.

Anyway, to do a better work for the upcoming release we are calling people who wish to help us with the various parts of the project. One of those is for sure to keep the website up to date, and possibly update the look of it. One thing we learned is that getting your site redesigned isn´t that difficult if you get the right company to do it. If you are interested in doing this, please join up the mailing list or come in into the irc channel and let us know.

– The dropline GNOME Development Team.

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dropline GNOME 2.26.3 released!

Hi, all I can say is that it took as a long to make a new release, and since the forces we have are not so strong, it was clear that we shouldn’t postpone it any longer. So, quoting the famous words, we’re going to “release early, and release (more) often”.

So, without further ado, it is a pleasure to announce the long-awaited stable release of the dropline GNOME desktop! This release includes the GNOME desktop, and its dependencies, at version 2.26.3.

Please get the installers from here:

Slackware 12.2:
http://saxa.droplinegnome.org/i686/2.26/dropline-installer-2.26.0a-i686-1dl.tgz
http://saxa.droplinegnome.org/i686/2.26/dropline-installer-2.26.0a-i686-1dl.tgz.md5

Slamd64 12.2:
http://saxa.droplinegnome.org/x86_64/2.26/dropline64-installer-2.26.0a-x86_64-2dl.tgz
http://saxa.droplinegnome.org/x86_64/2.26/dropline64-installer-2.26.0a-x86_64-2dl.tgz.md5

With this release we would like to thank very much Mr. Bart Van der Hall, a.k.a. Tyrael, who has really brought forth the build process at the beginning of the works on this release. Also a big thank you goes to Tiago Salvador, a.k.a. salvador_br. And, lastly, to Renato Cunha, a.k.a. trovao, who worked with us for a long time and I hope some day we see him back.

Many thanks also to all of the other contributiors and helpers like mohaa, juice, shadowx, Dagmar, Church, B3rx and Daga who are always helping us in the irc channel, in the forums, and elsewhere in the community.

Many many thanks to you all. Some parts of our website are still out of date and we intend to be fixing one page at a time. Also, I can say that work on the next upcoming release, which will be available for Slackware 13.0 and Slackware64 13.0, has already begun.

Last but not least, we are always in need of people willing to help us with the package creation and maintenance process. If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact us.

Many thanks and enjoy the release.

– The dropline GNOME Development Team