Lemur 5

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The Lemur 5 News / Status thread...

I am hoping for a June 21st release of the first Lemur 5 Alpha release, in honor of my mother who recently passed. June 21st was her birthday.

The first release will be very rough around the edges, as I get my feet wet in Lemur development again. 

As with the last Lemur release, this will be based on Debian stable (Bookworm) and 64bit only. However, this time there will be two editions. I will release a pure Window Maker edition, setup in the traditional Window Maker layout. I will also release a hybrid Window Maker edition (my favorite), setup in a more modern layout. Both editions will be Window Maker at the core, just different cosmetically. Once I'm able to recode the Lemur Morpher and Themer tools, I will return to releasing only one edition. Then the user will be able to switch back and forth from stock Window Maker to Hybrid, using these tools. Until then, I will keep two editions for those that prefer one layout over the other.

Prior to the first release, these forums will be completed / rebuilt. Until then, it will just be this thread.

I will post weekly updates to this thread...

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I managed to recode two of the custom Lemur apps so far, Lemur Quit and Lemur Menu Updater. I'm working on the new Lemur Control app, APEman 2. This is the "everything, including the kitchen sink" app. It will take some time to code...again. 

I created a "Liquid" version of the current wallpaper (image on the main website). 

I am also working on the custom bits for the installer and the package updater. I haven't fully decided how I plan to handler the updates just yet. The app I used before was coded by Ikey for Linux Mint and he helped me make changes for use in Lemur. It's a bit dated and I'm not sure what Ikey is up to these days. I'm leaning towards making my own updater app from scratch. Time will tell.

More to come next week...

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I'm making progress...

I had to update the kernel in the base, because the default kernel didn't fully work with my laptop. Which is a first, because I've never had that problem on this particular laptop. Anyway, the new kernel solved the issues.

While I was messing with the base, I started work on the boot-up (plymouth) graphics and the theme for lightdm. I'll post some screen shots once it's all complete.

I managed to get a couple of more Lemur apps recoded. That would be the Lemur Conky app and the newly created Lemur Desktop app. The Desktop app will combine the following apps; Lemur Dock (formerly wbar), Lemur Themer, Lemur Morpher, Lemur Panel, and Lemur iDesk apps. The Themer and Morpher bits are functional, but still need some tweaking.

Stay tuned for more...

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I was on call at work last week and the weekend. So, I didn't get much done with Lemur. A couple of the custom, Lemur apps started acting up all of a sudden after the last Debian update. So, I'll need to figure that out. I may end up changing what I use for coding the custom apps. More to come on that one..

I'm probably going to take the main website back to the original site. Between yesterday and today I had over 1,800 new user registrations...all scammers. I didn't know Lemur had such a huge following in the scammer community.   There is really no reason for user registration on the main site anyways (except maybe to comment on the Blogs). Once Lemur 5 is released all conversations will move to the forums as planned. I'll do some research before making a final decision.

Things are still progressing, albeit slower than I had hoped. Still looking at a June 21st release date for the Lemur 5.0 Alpha.

Stay tuned...