[Sawfish] [ANNOUNCE] Sawfish 1.9 RC1 (1.8.92)

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

 

... finally it's here! Sawfish 1.8.92 'Coldwater Canyon'

 

Download:

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Have lots of fun!

Chris

 

PS: Combined NEWS since 1.8.0

PPS: key for checking .sign files: 057549E2

 

1.8.92 "Coldwater Canyon"

=========================

 

* Updated or New dependencies

- librep 0.92.0 -> 0.92.1

 

- rep-gtk 0.90.4 -> 0.90.7

 

- ssd 0.20 [optional, for built-in poweroff-menu]

 

* Bug Fixes

- When cursor-warping was enabled and user switched to a shaded

window, the cursor warped to the position of the unshaded

window. This is fixed now. [Christopher Bratusek]

 

- When switching between tabbed themes from SawfishConfig, it

could happens that there were `gaps' in the frame. This is

fixed now. [Christopher Bratusek]

 

- In SawfishConfig one could only grab key-bindings, but not

mouse- or mixed mouse-key-bindings. This is fixed now. (Move

mouse 20 pixels to grab a `Move' event). [Christopher

Bratusek]

 

- SawfishConfig became useless when Sawfish restarted. This is

now worked-around by simply restarting SawfishConfig when

Sawfish does. A new `before-restart-hook' has been added for

this purpose. [Christopher Bratusek]

 

- In EdgeActions `HotSpot', `HotMove' and `EdgeFlip', it was

possible to trigger the same event multiple times at a time.

This is fixed now. [Jeremy Hankins]

 

- Fixed a bug in apps-menu, failing to generate the menu, if a

desktop-file contains both Categories and the (errorneous)

Category key, or only the later. [Matthew Love]

 

- Fixed a bug in window-manager selection handling. Set all

fields of the client message event. This prevents bugs, where

Sawfish sometimes isn't able to replace another

window-manager or aquiring the screen if no other WM is

running. [Timo Korvola]

 

- When making X request, we might receive and `select' will

stuck. This is fixed now [Michal Maruska]

 

- Avoid calling Xmap for gone windows. [Michal Maruska]

 

- Fixed a possible segmentation fault in `leave_notify' [Michal

Maruska]

 

- In SawfishConfig the `choice' widget didn't work when the

choices were numerical values. This is fixed now.

[Christopher Bratusek]

 

* Sawfish-MMC [Michal Maruska]

 

Sawfish-MMC was a fork of Sawfish active, while the original

Sawfish was inactive (2004-2007). Next follows a list of changes

merged from Sawfish-MMC.

- Only apply property changes if window as `refresh' property.

 

- In the pixmap-cache append pixmaps to the age list, rather

than prepending.

 

- Extend `pixmap-cache-control' to reset and return more

informations.

 

- `pixmap-cache-images' returns all images in cache.

 

- When initializing Sawfish, try to initialize XKB, too.

 

- Misc: Drop unused `prog_name' from `display.c'. Call

`XAddToSaveSet' from a better position in the code. Mar

`mapped_not_override_p' static. Simplified `property_notify'.

 

* EdgeAction changes [Christopher Bratusek]

- New EdgeActions:

x `HotMove'. Calls an EdgeAction when dragging a window

over the edge.

 

x `Expose'. Simple expose (one-shot tiling) EdgeAction

(can also be used stand-alone). Original code by Mark

Triggs.

 

x `Expand'. Drag a window over the edge and it expand to

the half-screen size.

 

x `Show-Desktop'. Toggles between `show-desktop' and

`hide-desktop'.

 

x `Maximize'. Just for competitive reasons choosable from

configurator.

 

- `before-edge-action-hook' and `after-edge-action-hook'. While

`enter-flipper-hook' and `leave-flipper-hook' simply respond

to the mouse entering or leaving the flipper-window, the new

hooks respond only when an EdgeAction was invoked. The two

hooks pass the invoked EdgeAction, activated edge and a

boolean `while-moving' value to the child-function (in that

order).

 

- Simplified, more robust EdgeFlip (flip-viewport and

flip-workspace are now split).

 

- Improved logic of blocking an action while another is already

running. On one hand, see `Bug Fixes' above, on the other

hand it's now ensured that we dont' activate an edge twice

when dragging a window over it or when the pointer hits the

edge via mouse-trapping.

 

- New `move-window-to-corner' and `move-window-to-edge' helpers.

 

- Updated EdgeAction documentation

 

* SawfishConfig changes [Christopher Bratusek]

- Updated and Improved widgets in SawfishConfig:

x `file'. The file(-chooser) widget now uses

GtkFileChooserButton in favour of the ancient

GtkFileSelectionDialog. The GtkEntry and GtkVBox used as

helpers became useless and are removed.

 

x `font'. The font(-chooser) widget now uses

GtkFontChooserButton in favour of the ancient

GtkFontSelectionDialog. The GtkEntry used as helper

became useless and is removed.

 

x `choice', `symbol', `keymap', `frame-style'. Those

widgets now use GtkComboBoxText in favour of ancient

GtkCombo/GtkComboEntry.

 

x `scheme-boolean'. This widget is now properly

implemented.

 

Old: two checkboxes. First for activating setting,

second for choosing yes or no. New: only one checkbox,

yes or no as usual, shows minus when unset.

 

x `number'. The number-widget now has a `stepping'

property, allowing to change the increment of a

button-press on the spin-button.

 

- New widgets in SawfishConfig:

x `range'. The range widget represents an integer with a

given range. Basically it uses a GtkScale instead of a

GtkSpinButton, which results in a better user-experience

for those values.

 

x `image'. The image widget contains a preview and

image-selector. The file-browser openend is setup to

display previews, too. Original code by Lucas Pandolfo.

 

- Removed widgets in SawfishConfig:

x `program'. Just an alias to `file'.

 

x All `gtk-only' widgets. Since Sawfish 1.5.0 those have

been dummies, we don't use `libgnome', `libgnomeui' or

`libgnomecanvas' anymore anyway.

 

- New buttons. SawfishConfig now offers buttons to access Wiki,

Help, ResourceFile and About. Additionally there's now a

file-chooser for installing themes from `*.tar.*' files.

 

- Widgets that depend on an disabled setting are now hidden

instead of greyed-out.

 

- Merged sawfish.cfg.widgets into sawfish.gtk.widgets. Old

widgets aren't loaded anymore, even if present from an old

installation.

 

- All defcustoms do now have a property to change the position

of the label. To change it, append on of the following to

the doc-string: \\left \\right \\top \\bottom.

 

Example:

 

(defcustom test-var 'eclipse

"This is just a test with label on top. \\top"

:type (choice eclipse crosshair none)

:group appearance)

 

Of course that only works, if the label is a GtkLabel widget

on it's own.

 

* Theme/Theming changes [Christopher Bratusek]

=== spoiler === : StyleTab in Sawfish 1.9 add lots of new

fancyness for the price of beeing slow. So if you experience

a long startup-time of Sawfish, it's a feature, not a bug. :

== /spoiler ===

 

- StyleTab changes:

x The theme is now fully re-colorable. You can choose

different colors for each button and the frame.

Furthermore you can choose how much to dimm inactive

frames (compared to active).

 

x Majorly improved the grouping of options in StyleTab.

 

x Added corners to frames (allowing resize with mouse at

window-corners).

 

x Available styles: Default (former Dark), WixDa (former

Silver), Reduce, Smoothly and Glass (New).

 

x Added hash-tables for images.

 

- New themes:

x Candido

 

x Zami-like

 

- Improved themes:

x Gradient has been replaced by Gradient-tabbed.

 

- Removed themes [still available from Wiki]:

x get-S-tabbed

 

x brushed-metal

 

x simple

 

x smaker

 

x mono

 

x gtk

 

- New theme-related configuration-options [theme independent]:

x Added an option to control the titlebar text position.

If a theme draws something additional in the titlebar

(eg. StyleTab draws an icon), refer to the functions

`update-title-x-offsets', `update-title-y-offsets'.

 

x Added an option to control the cursor-shape when

hovering frame-buttons.

 

x Added an option to change the font, depending on the

window state.

 

- Moved definitons for `previous-workspace-button' and

`next-workspace-button' from StyleTab into Sawfish.

 

* New Features

- Added `single-window-mode'. Basically this feature is known

from OS-X, though it's implemented in a more strict way. The

`single-window-mode' window should get all of the users

attention.

 

This is ensured by auto-iconifying any up-popping window,

which is not in the same group. To additionally not annoy the

user this is done without animation. Avoided or ignored

windows are lowered. When `single-window-mode' is quit, the

opposite happens.

 

Also `single-window-mode' hooks into unmap-notify-hook to

check whether the user wants to stop `single-window-mode' (by

either closing or iconifying the window). Besides each

workspace can hold it's own `single-window-mode'.

 

- Added `mouse-trap' feature. It provides a method for moving

the mouse to any place of the screen by zooming with just a

few keystrokes. The mouse is warped to the center of the

screen screen and a outline is drawn dividing the screen in 4

squares (like trapping the mouse on it). [Fernando Carmano

Varo] [Christopher Bratusek]

 

- Added `shade-stack' feature. It provides an alternative to

`iconify-window'. Instead of iconifying a window or minizing

it to a tray, the windows get shaded and sorted in a stack

starting from the top-left corner (the number of columns can

be changed). Combined with auto-unshade this offers -

possibly - a better way of interacting with windows which

aren't required at the moment. Original code by Luke Gorrie.

[Christopher Bratusek]

 

- Integrated settings for selecting wallpaper using an external

command (eg: hsetroot). Applying settings to GNOME2 or XFCE4

is also supported. Original code by Lucas Pandolfo.

[Christopher Bratusek]

 

- Added `toggle-desktop' function. Toggles between

`show-desktop' and `hide-desktop' - always logically correct.

[Christopher Bratusek]

 

* Miscellaneous Changes

- Improved desktop-integration modules [Christopher Bratusek]

x KDE integration: added entries for user-switch,

hibernate, suspend, lock-screen, menu-editor.

 

x XFCE integration: added entries for hibernate, suspend,

lock-screen, menu-editor.

 

x GNOME integration: added entry for lock-screen,

menu-editor.

 

x MATE integration: full integration module for MATE

Desktop has been added.

 

x Razor-Qt integration: integration module for Razor-Qt

has been added.

 

x The fallback poweroff-menu now uses SSD

`Sawfish-Session-Dialog', a companion to Sawfish, by

default. Support for logout and lockdown has been added.

[Christopher Bratusek]