Phinx Desktop Testers Google Group

We decided to create a Phinx Desktop Testers google group for reporting bugs and feedback. The groupforum is only for the Phinx Desktop test iso's like the recently released 2012.03 RC1.

In that way we can keep track on bugs and feedback in a more cleaner way.

Every one who is interested in testing can download the 2012.03 RC1 and is free to join in on the group.

http://groups.google.com/group/phinxdesktop-testers

For help and support on the current 2011.08 iso please use the main Phinx Desktop forum.

Enjoy testing and see you on the Phinx Desktop Testers group.

Phinx Desktop 2012.3 RC1 Released

Our head developer and maintainer of the Phinx Desktop project, Kori, has announced the availability of Phinx Desktop 2012-03 RC1.

RC1 Announcement

It includes a whole set of new wallpapers, with some of them provided by a great guy and forum member, who i call "The Master of Themes" or better "The Master of Theming", lkj.

There is also a new set of themes to be found in the RC1 next to the Phinx 2011 theme:

-Phinx Azure
-Phinx Chalk
-Phinx Ocre
-Phinx Slate

And it has a new icon theme: Faience. Which has been adjusted and split up into other icon themes to match the new Phinx themes:

-Faience Azur
-Faience Claire
-Faience Dark
-Faience Ocre

The menu icon has changed too to fit the branding of the Phinx Desktop.

Go ahead, download it for a spin and further testing.

Phinx Desktop 2012.3 RC1 Download

Make sure to check the md5sum after you downloaded the iso.

MD5SUM: 2369f281e189ea769a6cc43542cd9c95

All feedback is welcome on the forum:

RC1 Feedback topic

Enjoy and have fun testing.

The Phinx repo and the Xfce4 weather applet

Hello all,

After a huge delay and some other stuff i've been going through, i am back again to post news about the Phinx Desktop project. The update that i post below is almost a month old, sorry about that. But from now on i'll try to keep up with news again and post it as soon as news is available.


Kori finally got the repo populated with the current rpms. Please follow the instructions below to add it to your current Phinx install:

Open Thunar as root and goto /etc/apt and open your sources.list and paste the  line below at the bottom of the list:

rpm http://cozmodesigns.co.uk/repo/phinx/x86/apt/ phinx/2012 athlon i586 noarch

When you have done that be sure to save the sources.list

Open Synaptic and go to Settings and then Repositories. Remove xfce4 from the PCLinuxOS repo but don't remove the PCLinuxOS repo itself!

Click ok , reload Synaptic and mark all xfce4 packages for reinstallation.
Click apply to install all files. 


Xfce4 Weather Applet:
 
Kori has also updated a few more applets to work with the latest xfce4 4.9 panel. One which he is especially pleased with is getting the weather applet semi functional.

It can only be installed manually at the moment: Instructions can be found here

This will allow the applet to be re-added to the panel and display the Weather for your local area. The only function missing is it will not populate the 5 day forecast. This is being worked on though.



Have fun, stay cool, tuned and until the next time peeps!

Phinx Desktop 2012 development update

Kori has been working hard on the upcoming Phinx Desktop 2012 iso's (32 and 64 bit!) and is still busy putting a few default themes together for the new releases along with some other updates.

If all goes well we can expect the Beta iso's soon for testing.


Here's a sneak peek of one of the default themes Kori has been working on:

                               Source: http://cozmodesigns.co.uk/phinx/archives/171

I'm looking forward to the Beta iso's already and test them once available.

Always remember this: Don't ask when it's ready..... It will be ready when it's ready.

We'll keep you updated for sure.

A happy and awesome 2012 to all

First of all i want to wish each and every one of you a happy, healthy and awesome 2012.


It has been a while since the last post and some even might have started to wonder why it has been very quiet here for the last two months.

It has been a very busy time for us and moving to a new home has been the biggest step of all between the Xmas holiday. We are still in the middle of things, setting up everything, unpacking stuff, paint, put new wallpaper on the walls and so on.

A big step forward for me is that i finally have my very own room again where i can spend my time and concentrate on my hobbies like the Phinx Desktop project, Phinx Rising blog and the Phinx Rising twitter newschannel.

Still got to find myself a cool looking "Keep Out!" sign that i can put on the door. LOL!!!

Stay tuned for the future updates. We're still alive and kicking. ;)

Phinx Rising now on Twitter too

Phinx Rising can also be found now on Twitter. A extra gadget has been placed on this site with a link to the Phinx Rising Twitter profile.

Feel free to follow and recieve the news updates on Twitter too.

Enjoy! :)

Phinx Desktop On Softpedia and Distrowatch

While going through some stuff on the web I found out that Phinx Desktop has entered Softpedia on October 17.

Have a look here:

Phink Desktop 2011-08 On Softpedia

The second spotting was on Distrowatch were I noticed that Phinx Desktop has entered the waiting list on October the 5th:

Phinx Desktop on waiting list Distrowatch


This means that the word about the Phinx Desktop project is spreading and noticed by other sites. Awesome stuff going on here!