Download XPde 0.5.0

M4RTiN submits the following: “After a long wait and preconceptions that the project was ‘dead’, there is finally an update. The entire code has been remade from scratch, resulting in a very tight windows manager and desktop environment for Linux From this point on, work will be done quickly until the final 1.0 version.” XPde is a windows manager for Linux that tries to mimic the interface and functionality of Windows XP pixel by pixel. The latest release is voiced as version 0.5.0 and via this link to pump down. Below is the changelog for this release:

Major Enhancements

• The desktop now fully uses PNG+Alpha channel, so you can use the icons of your choice anywhere
• The icon theme has been updated to the latest crystal svg, but not all icons are included, just the needed ones
• The used font now is Bitstream vera, which looks very similar to tahoma
• Now, I’m using QTheme from Andreas Hausladen. Still some work to do on this field.
• The desktop now is a XPShellListView control, that means that is based on the XPListView control will be used to build the explorer and that uses the XPDirectoryMonitor, a component that maintain an update list of files from a directory and it gets notified about changes without polling or using FAM
• The desktop now repaints significantly faster, I have spent most of the time optimizing the code to make it work faster in lower resources machines
• The taskbar is also completely new, is built using bitmaps, as you can see in the shot and can be themed very easily
• The window manager is mostly new, it also allows you to use themes, including rounded window frames.

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