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I promise - this will be the last "update" regarding the themes. I noticed over the weeked that repo generation on the COPR had mysteriously failed (I think). So I rebuilt the packages and now everything should work! Also, I have now built the themes for Fedora 25 (rawhide in COPR) also. Anyone running rawhide can give it a spin. I had some issues building on rawhide before but that does not seem to be a problem anymore. Hope everything works! And, that's it about themes.  P.S. Spyder update coming work begins now.

After my previous post last night, I decided to setup a COPR repo for the themes to facilitate easier installation. Here is the link - GTK3-themes COPR This COPR can be enabled as dnf copr enable nonamedotc/gtk3-themes Packages can be installed as dnf install arc-theme-red-{,gtk2,gtk3,xfwm4,cinnamon,gnome-shell} At the moment, there are four themes built in the COPR - Arc Arc-Red Vertex Adapta Hopefully, at some point, I will submit this for package review.

Ever since Fedora 24 was released, I have been looking at new themes for use with Xfce that are not completely broken with GTK 3.20. I have tried several themes and since several of them had to be compiled (not copy/paste to ~/.themes), I have packaged those I have tried so far. Here are the links to koji builds -  Arc Arc theme github page Arc theme koji build Arc red Arc Red theme github page Arc Red koji build Adapta Adapta theme github page Adapta theme koji build Please email me if there are any theme requests and/or issues with these packages. Alternatively, leave comments on this page.

Final reminder to test xfce 4.12 packages on EPEL. If you are running RHEL/CentOS/SL, please help test Xfce 4.12 packages. This would necessitate enabling epel-devel repo temporarily. Details about the update are here - update details Thanks for testing!

This post is repeated from the email I sent out to epel-devel and xfce (@fedora) mailing lists [0]. After a trial run involving a COPR repo [1], I had written earlier indicating that I started doing real builds of Xfce 4.12 packages for EL-7 [2]. This is now complete and I have now submitted a update - a mega update containing 53 packages total. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-262a3f39e1 Three points about the update libxfce4ui obsoletes libxfcegui4  (plugins using libxfcegui4 were never built for EL-7)  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin obsoletes xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed   (xfce4-volumed is not even in the repos)  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin uses pavucontrol as sound mixer which is unavailable in EL-7 at the moment.  I have tested both upgrading a user configured Xfce 4.10 install and by creating a new user. I did not notice any issues so far. Please enable epel-testing repo on a test machine, test these packages ...

I was checking my blog settings for forcing https but (effectively) stumbled upon the stats page. I was a bit bored today and so I figured I would write a short ( python ) script to plot the data. Considering my blog should more or less get visits solely from fedora planet, my expectations about browser and operating systems distributions among the visits was totally different from what I have hoping to see. Distribution of browsers     Distribution of operating systems Of course, browser user agents are not the most reliable pieces of information. Still, this looks interesting - Nice correlation between the OS and browser data - at least as I see it. This was based on >44,000 total visits. Update: While I am at it, I might as well add the country wide distribution of blog hits.    

I recently updated xfdashboard in (rawhide and) Fedora 24 to version 0.5.90. Apart from several under the hood changes, xfdashboard 0.5.90 introduces the hot corner plugin . Screenshot below -  The activation corner can be set to any of the four corners of the screen while radius of activation was fun to play with. I preferred a slightly bigger radius but that's, of course, a personal preference.

I have (finally) built Texmaker for EL-7. The package should be available in epel-testing repository once it is pushed. Link to the update - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-fa7cddf9c2 This is built against qt4. Please test and add karma to the update.

nmrglue  is a python module for processing NMR data. From the upstream website, nmrglue has the ability to read, write and convert between a number of common NMR file formats including Varian, Bruker, NMRPipe, and Sparky files. The files, which are represented in python as dictionaries of spectral parameters and Numpy array objects, can be easily examined, modified and processed as desired. nmrglue provides a number of common functions for processing NMR data such as apodization, spectral shifting, Fourier and other transformations, baseline smoothing and flattening, and linear prediction. In addition new processing schemes can be implemented easily using the nmrglue provided functions and the multitude of numerical routines provided by the Numpy and Scipy packages. When used in conjunction with the matplotlib (or other) python plotting library nmrglue can be used to create publication quality figures of NMR spectrum or examine data interactively. nmrglu...

Xfpanel-switch is a nifty little program that aids in managing multiple panel layouts in Xfce. I came across this application when I checked out xubuntu livecd last week. I have now pacakged this application for Fedora. It is available in rawhide and for Fedora releases 24 and 23. Here are some screenshots -  This is my panel configuration (labeled as nonamedotc) - the one I use on a day to day basis There are three other configurations available for selection in the default setup. redmond - "windows" like config gnome-2 - Old gnome like config xfce-4.12 - This is Fedora default config F23 update - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-858811aa83 For Fedora 24, you can install the package using dnf install xfpanel-switch --nogpgcheck

With the update to RHEL - 7.2, GNOME was updated to the next stable version. Along those lines, for Xfce users, I would like to update the Xfce version to Xfce 4.12. However, before I push a mega update, I would like some feedback. So, I have created a Xfce 4.12 for EPEL-7 repo. If people have some time and have a virtual machine and/or a test system running RHEL-7.2 or CentOS 7.2 or Scientific Linux 7.2, please use the COPR (details below) to install/update to Xfce 4.12 packages. Here is the link to the COPR -  xfce412-epel7   Here are some screenshots from my Centos VM.   Potential Issues There may be some version issues since I just built the latest Fedora SRPMs.  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin should obsolete xfce4-mixer. If not, please report to me.  There may be some xfce panel plugins missing. Please report to me by email and I will build whatever is missing. As a reminder,  these are NOT official packages. Pl...

gparted had a new release a couple of days back. This version has a bunch of bug fixes and updates. Here is the list of changes ( quoted directly from the upstream website) Add progress bar during additional ext2/3/4 and ntfs operations Enhance SWRaid member detection  and file system clearing Always use blkid file system before libparted List of bugfixes and release notes can be found here. I have built the package for rawhide and F23. F23 update is here - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-2a473b7a76

Manjaro folks use a beautiful icon theme called Menda-Circle in their distribution. The sources are public of course and is distributed under Creative Commons ShareAlike v4.0. Source - menda-icon-theme - Github link I had packaged the icon theme for my use sometime back and now I am making it available for anyone that wants to use it. The package name is called menda-icon-theme and will appear as Menda Circle These can be downloaded using the links below. menda icon theme - source rpm menda icon theme - binary rpm   Here are some screenshots - Thanks to excellent work by the Manjaro folks. P.S. Please report any packaging errors to me by email (See contact page). Thanks.