website – dropline GNOME

New web site theme

admin — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:04:48 +0000

Heya all, its a long time since we had this old theme made by our old friend Silvestre Herrera from Argentina, but due to not being able to use it with the latest php and other stuff required here , i decided to change it and use a maybe more modern and fresh look. This is something really I had done nothing more than selecting a new theme and addad an image. But yeah, lets live with it for some time, and who knows somebody shows up and want to update it or propose an better option, feel free.

So I will be working on improving it a bit in my spare time and hopfully I get back all the menus and functionalities of the previous nicely made theme. Thanks Silvestre !!!

Files of the packages continue where they were, so if you need them click here.

New theme thanks to Silvestre !

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:06:58 +0000

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.

Disabled forums

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:53:50 +0000

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 …

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Theme problems.

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:21:52 +0000

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 I have changed the default theme of the web page , since the one we have for dropline GNOME website, is a bit outdated for the wordpress we use.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.

Forums restored.

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:36:01 +0000

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.

Website and other news.

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:23:56 +0000

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.

Forums polished and few other things.

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:57:35 +0000

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.

Website updates and other stuff….

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:30:42 +0000

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.