Among other new features also important enough to deserve news on their own, a new project has just been added to DeforaOS' sources repository: Panel [1].

It is still very basic, but constitutes one of the few missing bits before releasing a proof of concept, yet functional preview of what would the DeforaOS desktop look like. For the rest:

• the desktop manager has been extended, now also able to draw the background image [2];
• the file copy tool is much more responsive [3];
• the progress program has been improved as well [4].

It seems that archlinux [5] users could be interested in these tools, as another lightweight and reasonably fast (?) alternative to other desktop environments. This will deserve another round of formal releases!

[1] https://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3262/Panel
[2] https://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/230?file=/src/desktop.c,v
[3] https://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/230?file=/src/copy.c,v
[4] https://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/235?file=/src/progress.c,v
[5] http://www.archlinux.org/