Unlike what the news count of this past month of May could suggest, a lot of work was put into the project in the last few weeks. Before a couple other posts, each detailing a new direction where this project can now head to, here is a summary of each new released content since the last announcement:

[1] Panel 0.0.6

• more parameters can be defined in the configuration file
• the panel can be placed at the top of the screen instead
• pop-up keyboard applet (using xkbd)
• fixed some resizing bugs

[2] Panel 0.1.0

• new applet for the yet-to-be-announced Phone project
• improved embedded support
• bug fixes and performance improvements

[3] Browser 0.2.0

• the desktop application is more compliant with the NETWM specification
• usability fixes and improvements (dialogs, keyboard shortcuts...)
• implemented a homescreen for embedded platforms

[4] libDesktop 0.0.2

• updated the API to allow better keyboard shortcuts

Of course most of these releases already made their way into either NetBSD (through pkgsrc-wip [5]) and Debian (through hackable:1 [6]).

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3348/Panel-0.0.6.tar.gz
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3349/Panel-0.1.0.tar.gz
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3355/Browser-0.2.0.tar.gz
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3357/libDesktop-0.0.2.tar.gz
[5] http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/
[6] http://www.hackable1.org/